Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), being the highest stakeholder, has led others in offering Agura Hotel Abuja as an Isolation centre in Abuja.
NPA in a press release issued by Adams Jato, it’s General Manager in charge of Corporate and Strategic Communication, said the 130 bed facility is being provided as part of the organisation’s corporate social responsibility.
Agura Hotel, according to its official website is ‘a Five Star hotel uniquely located in the heart of Abuja city, a walking distance from the various places like the international conference centre, cultural centre area 10, commercial area, sightseeing. It is about 17 kilometers from Nnamdi Azikwe International airport”
Meanwhile,the NPA has clarified that it didn’t contradict the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) over discovery of six Covid19 positive sailors onboard a vessel in Nigeria.
In a separate press statement, the NPA disclosed that it only sought to get full details of the vessel and port or Jetty it berthed for the information of the nation’s maritime community
According to the statement, “The NPA, by its tweet on Thursday March 26, did not contradict the information released to the public by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). What the tweet sought (repeated below) to do was get full details of incident for purposes of record and better management in the future.
“Hello @NCDC. In respect to the 6 new cases that “were detected on a vessel” in Lagos, the Authority in collaboration with Port Health has not recorded any confirmed cases to date.
To enable verification and proper record keeping, kindly avail us with specific details on the name of the Vessel the passengers were on board, and the Terminal or Jetty where they berthed.
“The NPA needed the clarification to reassure its stakeholders who raised concern over the announcement that six cases were found on a vessel when they as shipping companies, terminal operators, jetty operators did not witness any such passengers through their respective COVID-19 protocol,” the statement said.
