By Emma Una
THE Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has directed all those who had close contact with the late Cross River Police Commissioner to report for isolation.
Professor Ikpeme Ikpeme gave the directive while reacting to the death of Mr Jimoh Ibrahim the Cross River State Police Commissioner at the COVID-19 Isolation Centre in the hospital this morning.
He said Ibrahim was brought to the hospital practically dead and advised all those who were with him to report for COVID-19 tests and self isolation.
Mr Ibrahim who is from Kwara State died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, reportedly of pneumonia complications.
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The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh, is dead.
He died on Friday morning at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital allegedly of COVID-19-related ailment.
The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Prof. Ikpeme Ikpeme confirmed the death of Jimoh.
He said the CP was brought into the hospital on Friday dead.
“He was dead on arrival. COVID-19 protocols will be followed before his body will be evacuated,” Ikpeme said.
The CMD also advised all those who were with him to visit the hospital for COVID-19 test and subsequently be on self insolation.
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The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Prof. IkpemeIkpeme, has directed all those who had close contact with the late Cross River Police Commissioner, CP Abdulkadir Jimoh, to report for isolation.
Professor Ikpeme gave the instructions while reacting to the death of the Police Commissioner at the COVID-19 Isolation Centre in the hospital this morning.
According to the CMD, CP Jimoh was brought to the hospital practically dead, therefore, he advised all those who were with him to report for COVID-19 tests and self-isolation.
The Street Journal had earlier reported that Mr. Jimoh, died of respiratory complications which some quarters linked to COVID-19.
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Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, has died of respiratory complications which some quarters have linked to COVID-19.
Mr Ibrahim who is from Kwara State died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, on Friday, December 18, after suffering from complications allegedly linked to pneumonia.
Disclosing this development to Vanguard, a reporter with AIT in Calabar, Mr Rasheed Olarewaju, said the Commissioner of Police was rushed to the UCTH this morning where he gave up the ghost.
While many have said Mr Ibrahim died of coronavirus complications, Olarewaju said, “Nobody should tell you he died of COVID-19, the doctors said he died of pneumonia”.
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Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim has passed on.
Mr Ibrahim who is from Kwara State died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, reportedly of pneumonia complications this morning.
A source close to the man, Mr Rasheed Olariwaju the AIT reporter in Cross River told Vanguard that the man was rushed to the UCTH this morning where gave up the ghost.
“Nobody should tell you he died of COVID-19 but the doctors said he died of pneumonia”.
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He said as a Muslim plans are afoot to take his body to Kwara state for Muslim rites and subsequent burial.