Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation
(SGF), has called on Nigerians to prove the world wrong on COVID-19.
Mustapha, who is the chairman of the presidential task force
on COVID-19, said Nigeria is seen as one of the countries that would be crushed
by the virus.
At a briefing on Friday, the SGF said Nigerians must wake up
to their responsibility by cooperating with law enforcement agencies,
especially in compliance with the two-week lockdown directed by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari had ordered a two-week lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and
Abuja.
“We need to arise and work as a people to ensure that we
have something going for us as a nation,” he said.
“Let’s prove the world wrong on this, because the
expectation is that we would crash under this. Major networks of the world are
carrying such news items that Nigeria is definitely going to crash under this.
But I know the Nigerian spirit that we will overcome this.
“We have to understand the psychology of what is happening.
Somebody will go on the Internet and pick up what happened in 2012 and post as
what is just happening in Warri, or it is just happening in Lagos… we have to
be very care here, so that we do not tie the hands of our law enforcement
agents and incapacitate them from being efficient and effective in their
implementation of this lockdown.
“Yesterday, I was watching CNN; a woman in Chile ran out of
isolation centre. The police ran after her and grabbed her and pulled her back
into the isolation centre. In a lot of countries, like Russia and the rest, you
can’t talk about the punitive processes that have been put in place.
“You decide to disregard the regulations that has been put
in place, there’s a place that has been prepared for you in jail for a certain
number of years. I have emphasised the fact that what we are trying to do is to
have Nigerians on this process. It is for our good to protect ourselves and to
protect our loved ones. And we must put this narrative out there so that we
take narrative of the process.”
He said COVID-19 is not an ordinary virus as it has
overtaken the world with a storm and had overrun even the best of medical
facilities, adding that Nigeria’s medical infrastructure is nowhere compared to
the nations that are being driven aground as a result of this pandemic.
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That is why we need to let the world know now that we are no longer that corrupt Nation by working together and build our nation Nigeria. Stop the looting, stop going abroad for medicals. Let make Nigeria great again.Lets stop taking our money abroad, let use our money to build this Nation. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, this Covid-19 issue is a lesson for all corrupt leaders in Africa.
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