Senate dismisses report of COVID-19 scare in National Assembly

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, claiming there was panic in the National Assembly because 50 lawmakers tested positive for COVID-19. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Dr.

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Ajibola Basiru, in reaction to an enquiry from our correspondent on the issue described the publication as “fake news merchants.”The report had claimed that the House of Representatives adjourned plenary until next week following news that over 50 legislators may have tested positive for Coronavirus

It quoted an unidentified lawmaker as telling journalists that about 50 of his colleagues had tested positive for the virus with some of them seriously ill. The online medium also claimed that its findings had revealed that many of the lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly had tested positive for COVID-19 but refused to make it known to the public.

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