Recovered loot used to fund COVID-19 fight – AbdulRazaq

•State takes delivery of new ventilators

The Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for helping the state to recover looted funds which, according to him, have become useful in the fight against COVID-19.

AbdulRazaq said the recovered funds strengthened Kwara’s ability to put in place necessary facilities, among other counter-COVID-19 efforts.

“We have bought five new ambulances (three on the ground and two are on the way). We have 10 ventilators now and we expect to have 30 by the end of the month and that’s one of the highest in the country today. We now have a mobile x-ray machine too,” he told reporters in a press briefing today.

The Governor said the recovered loot became useful in the face of dwindling allocations arising from the global oil crisis.

He said the government has turned around the Sobi Specialist Hospital which is now the COVID-19 response center of the state.

He said the administration is now working on having an isolation centre in Offa after which another would be created in General Hospital Kaiama.