Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the
federation, says the death Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president, shows
that COVID-19 ”has come home”.
The late chief of staff went into isolation after he tested
positive for the disease in March.
The presidency announced his death on Friday night.
The SGF, who doubles as the chairman of the presidential
task force on COVID-19, said Nigerians should no longer see the pandemic as a
joke
“There are very big lessons to learn from the death of Abba
Kyari,” he said.
“One of the key lessons for me is that this thing is real
and it has come home. How closer can it be to us than this? That is why I keep
saying that we should not play with this issue. It is not a joke.
“It has come to ravage our people, ravage our health and
ravage our wealth as a nation so we must take it more seriously and the
advisory that have gone out about social distancing, washing of hands and
staying at home are not punitive, they are meant for our good.
“We have seen it now, that it has come home to us. If we
were thinking of people who had passed on as a result of COVID-19 from a
distance, it is not far now. It is just like a brother or friend or a relative
that has passed on.
“This is a man we worked with on a daily basis, you see him
virtually every day so it’s a big lesson that our people should not joke with
this, we must wash our hands, stay at home, use sanitizers and follow all the
advisories religiously.”
Mustapha described Kyari as “a very good, determined and
intellectually upright man”.
He said his death is a personal loss to him, to the
president and the nation.
“A lot of people didn’t understand Malam Abba but I worked
with him for three years and I can tell you that he is a wonderful person, he
is a good man; deep down in his heart, he always meant well and I looked up to
him as a senior brother in the course of the work that we did in the last three
years,” he said.
“If I show you my phone, you will see some of the things
that he was sending to me even when he was confirmed positive with COVID-19, he
was still sending jokes. Every piece of joke he picked up in the internet he
would send it to me.
“He demonstrated a high level of commitment to his job and
he had a passion for the legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari and in
everything he did, he never cared whose toes he stepped on, provided it was in
the attainment of the legacies he believed President Buhari ought to leave.
“He was always very considerate. You might hold different
opinions but he would drill the matter until he convinces you or you convince
him.”
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