Officials of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) were alarmed on Friday after a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), (name withheld), attached to 21 Mobile Police Force, Nyanya, Abuja, vanished into thin air after testing positive to COVID-19.
This incident occurred just as NCDC officials had been expressing worry over the escalating cases of COVID-19 carriers in Nigeria.
According to eyewitnesses, a mild drama played out when NCDC officials came to take the police officer to an isolation centre to commence his treatment.
It was learnt that the officer, when officials of NCDC and some policemen came to take him to isolation, locked them out and left his apartment through a backdoor
The team of NCDC officials were said to have gone to his apartment at Garki Police Barracks on Saturday at about 2pm.
According to a Police source, the officer had earlier been quarantined and had been on treatment at the National Hospital, Abuja. How he escaped from his treatment centre, remains a mystery.
It was further gathered that since his vanishing act, all his phone lines had remained unreachable
The Police, who want to get him before he spread the virus to his unsuspecting colleagues, have set up surveillance teams to trail and take him into custody. Further, a medical team had been alerted and is on standby for his arrest.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mensah, when contacted about the incident, said that he was not aware of the incident. He, however, promised to find out about the matter and get back to our reporter. But as at press time, he was yet to do so.