Kunle Adelabu
-Back in country after successful surgery, COVID – 19 test
The Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Oyeniran Agunbiade, has charged his constituents and generality of Lagos residents to ensure that they take necessary COVID – 19 test to ascertain their status.
He stated that it is better for residents to take the test and ascertain their respective status to save themselves of unnecessary apprehension in this period when the deadly virus is ravaging the globe.
The four –term lawmaker made the appeal in a statement released on Saturday (yesterday) and titled, “Why and While I was away’, which he signed himself three days after returning to the country after spending two months abroad to undergo surgery.
His initial attempt to return to the country was delayed due to the closure of the country’s airspace in an effort to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus.
“My wife and I took the advantage of the extended stay to procure COVID 19 test with the Health Authority of our host country and both of us tested negative to the pandemic virus”, Hon. Agunbade revealed.
“I will urge every individual to be bold to ascertain his or her health status in respect of this globally virulent virus. It is more assuring and helps to save one of unnecessary apprehensions”, he urged.
The lawmaker, who is currently being quarantined alongside other returnees, promised his constituents that he would soon join them after the necessary 14 days’ quarantine period prescribed for anybody returning to the country by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
“I came back to the country on Wednesday, the 6th of May, 2020, but together with other returnees, we are currently being quarantined as demanded of us by the NCDC.
“But we will soon join you after the mandatory quarantine period under terms and conditions that have been established as precautions for the spread of these virus. It is for the safety of all”, he assured.
Hon. Agunbiade, speaking on his medical sojourn abroad, said that he had a successful surgery with a specialist abroad to correct his bone joints.
He denied rumors making the round that he was rushed abroad due to an internal organ problem or any critical or devastating aliment.
“The surgery was successfully carried out. But at the time of my eventual discharge from the hospital, Nigeria had locked down its airspace and no flight could come into the country” he said.
“I left Nigeria in the company of my wife on Sunday, the 8th of March, 2020, on a medical trip as counselled by different medical experts and consultants.
“All the counsels made reference to a particular specialist Hospital. I was not rushed out on emergency as some mischief makers have claimed around town”, Hon. Agunbiade stated while putting the record straight.
“For clarity, sometime ago, I hurt one of my bone joints. I thought I had treated the injury perfectly but it later developed into Osteoarthritis, which can best be cured by orthopedic surgery.
“That was the crux of my sojourn away from the country. I had no internal organ problem or any critical and devastating ailment that some had attributed to me on account of my trip”, he stated.
The popular lawmaker did not fail to address rumour allegedly being peddled by some people in his constituency about his state of health, while he was full of appreciation for all those that expressed genuine concerns about his whereabout for over two months.
“It is so disheartening that some funny characters in their old ages, could engage in the mischief of fabricating and peddling ugly rumours about my state of health, wishing me what they could not wish their children.
“Rather than wishing them anything near what they wished me, I will leave them to the perfect judgement of God.
“For all those that expressed genuine concerns about my very curious absence from circulation for almost two months, I extend my appreciations and pray that you and your household will never know sorrow.
He commended the efforts of Hon. Abike Dabiri – Erewa, the Director – General of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission, in ensuring that he and his wife were part of those to be airlifted back to the country.
“I must acknowledge the wonderful interventional communications that Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa had with me as the Director General of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission, throughout our struggle to be part of stranded Nigerians to be airlifted back to the country”.
