Dopkesi Settles With Nigeria Government, Takes Down Comment On COVID-19 Medications

DAAR Communications founder, High Chief Raymond Aliegho Dopkesi has pulled down his comment aired on AIT over his confusion on coronavirus medications used in treating patients diagnosed with the disease.

Dopkesi who recently recovered from the virus had in a video said he was confused on the difference between COVID-19 and malaria as all drugs he was given while in isolation were malaria medications.

“What’s the difference between COVID-19 and malaria? Every drug we were given were malaria medications,” he said.

“A number of persons who tested positive were checked in reputable labs, hospitals in Abuja and were found to have malaria parasites in their bloodstreams. When did malaria become synonymous with COVID-19?”

But yesterday Sunday, the media mogul, in an internal memo to the TV station, said he had settled with the Nigerian Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC over the issue and asked them to stop airing the video.

He wrote: “I write to request you to discontinue referencing the comments and views expressed by both the founder, Engr. Raymond A.A Dokpesi, and the Chairman, Chief Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, in all your news bulletins and in fact bring them down from your official websites for now.

“Very senior citizens and elders have argued and I agree with them that I should have addressed a private message to the PTF and the Presidency rather than cast aspersions on their methods thereby creating doubts in the minds of the public. 

“I also agree to an immediate truce.”