Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has alleged that
politicians are playing games with the lives of Nigerians through COVID-19.
Bello spoke on Thursday while hosting the board of trustees
of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation at his office in Lokoja.
The governor, who insisted that the state is COVID-19 free,
said the disease is not new in Nigeria and that the country has its own way of
treating it.
He said rather than subjecting citizens to hardship through
a lockdown, the country should be busy exploring ways of treatment.
Bello said the death of Nasir Ajanah, the state’s chief
judge, was natural and should not be attributed to COVID-19.
“Let us stop this game, Nigerians are suffering, instead of
the lockdown with its attendant negative effects on the people, why can’t we
turn it to employment opportunities, providing clothes for face masks to be
imported to those countries who have the disease,” Bello said.
“COVID-19 is not a new disease in our climate, we have our
own way of treating it, that is what we should be exploiting rather than
subjecting our people to hardship, hunger, and starvation through the lockdown.
“We know his medical history, he was my brother, we know we
have been managing him since 2016 but this time, he was completely isolated, no
one was allowed to even speak to him until he passed away, we cannot afford to
be playing games with lives of Nigerians, this must stop.”
The Kogi government has repeatedly accused the Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) of perpetrating illegality through COVID-19.
Two patients who were transferred to Abuja from the Federal
Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi, tested positive for COVID-19 in the
nation’s capital, but the Bello administration still insisted that there is no
coronavirus in the state.
On Wednesday, doctors at FMC, Lokoja, declared indefinite
strike over the poor response of Kogi government to COVID-19.
Gunmen had broken into the hospital, attacking doctors and
other health workers ahead of a media briefing on COVID-19.
The government later blamed the incident on aggrieved
patients, a claim some doctors refuted.
They had said the briefing was disrupted to stop a protest
on the status of some COVID-19 patients who were being treated in the hospital.
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