Children of Susan Okpe, a woman said to be the coronavirus index case in Benue State, have tackled the Federal Government for continuing to keep her in isolation.
She has been in isolation for 57 days and both the woman and children no more find this funny.
There have been claims and counter-claims, with Okpe saying both Benue State Government and the FG, through the Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, are lying against her as she says she never got the disease.
Here are the children’s lamentations as they relayed on Instagram:
Also in a video on Tuesday, Okpe herself sid:
My name is Susan Idoko Okpe nee Lawani coming to you from my incarceration or detention center. This is my 57th day of incarceration….57th day of detention.
I don’t know what to do anymore. I have been tested five times. My last test was on Thursday the 14th of May 2020. The NCDC came and took my sample. Up till this very moment that I am talking, nobody has spoken to me, given me any result, nobody has told me anything. I am wondering what exactly are they doing with me?
I took first test, second, third and fourth and they are saying that I have refused to take further tests. I have taken the fifth test already on Thursday.
Please Nigerians, can somebody ask the NCDC what they want to do with me?
I am not sick, I have never been sick since I have been here for the past 57 days.
I have not taken any medication. I have not fallen ill. I have not had a headache. I have not coughed and I am still here. I am locked up.
Please Nigerians, can somebody help me ask because I am really tired. I miss my children, I miss my grandchildren. I am locked up here, nobody comes to see me. I am locked up in Isolation ward. I only peep out to get my food from people whom I trust that bring my food to me.
Please I beg of Nigerians, help me ask the NCDC or whoever is in charge, why am I being locked up here? What crime have I committed? If I have committed any crime, can they please arraign me before the court of law so that I know my fate. I am just locked up here for no reason. I am not sick. I am not sick. I have not taken any medication. Absolutely nothing wrong with me.
Please I don’t know what to do anymore and I don’t know what they want to do with me anymore. NCDC please! Give me the result and let me know what you want to do with me but as I sit here, I am not sick. There is absolutely nothing wrong with me. They don’t give me anything. They don’t feed me. My children have to ask people to bring food for me.
Nigerians, please ask them for me what they want to do with me. I have done five tests already and I am still here. NCDC please I am begging. I don’t know what you want to do with me. Maybe you want to kill me..maybe you want to poison me. If not what else do you want with me?”
And the children continue:
