About fifty Protesters on Wednesday stormed the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, destroying the administrative block and carting away computers and files reportedly relating to Covid-19.

UGAMATV gathered that the protesters numbering about 50 arrived on the premises with placards and dangerous weapons.

The rationale behind the demonstration was not unconnected to the management of the coronavirus disease in the state.

Some of the placards read, ‘The state government is not doing anything about the excesses of FMC, Lokoja’; ‘Please help us PMB’; There is isolation centre in FMC, Lokoja with equipment, why are they unutilised?’; ‘Other FMC across the federation are handling the pandemic, GYB/PMB, come to our rescue’.

The intervention of men of the state Police Command, however, prevented the situation from escalation.

Efforts to speak with the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Tunde Alabi, proved futile.