But later on it emerged that the former county staff was not dead as claimed. Reports indicated that Ayisi was admitted at the Mater Hospital's HDU. As a result, Sonko in his retraction deleted the tweet and promised to personally apologise to the family. Some of our staff sent out the alert without proper consultation," Elkana Jacob said. According to him, the two employees had been directed to proceed on compulsory leave to pave the way into investigations on why they sent the alert without consulting the family.

Source: The Star November 02, 2020 09:11 UTC