Archbishop Adeleye Reiterates Facts About Covid-19

Archbishop, Ecclesiastical Province of Niger Delta and Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Calabar, The Most Rev Tunde Adeleye has called for a more rigorous sensitisation campaign against COVID-I9 which he said is real and should not be taken for granted.

He stated this in Calabar during a chat with newsmen. 

According to him, “I would advise that we should reinforce and re-educate our people about COVID. You know as I talk to you now, even some of our governors say that COVID does not exist. That shows that even the people in highly placed positions belittle this sickness and don’t know that it is a very serious case. 

“I wish to join every serious-minded Nigerian to say that COVID is very real, it has affected some people very close to me and even if it did not affect me, whatever it is, that sickness is real.

“Nobody should take it for granted, whether it came from China and it’s travelling to UK, or is travelling from Germany to Asia or from South Africa to Egypt, whatever the route it is taking, it is real.”

He also spoke on Amnesty International’s recent poor rating of Nigeria on corruption, placing it as the second most corrupt country in West Africa.

He said, “When this government came in, what they were telling us was that corruption will be killed, anybody that has been in Nigeria since then will know that the corruption that was to be killed is not now only bolder, it is stronger, more fundamental, huge. In fact, corruption now has acquired greater techniques such that even the protagonists of wanting to kill corruption are bereft of ideas of how to kill the corruption. 

“Corruption is worse now and more horrible than ever before at any level. The only thing that has happened now is that in the past when one person is corrupt, the person is shouted upon, everybody hears but now when you are corrupt  and you are in a particular party, the sky is your limit, you can continue the corruption and nobody will say anything. It is obvious, we don’t need to deceive ourselves.”

Adeleye also called for true federalism as solution to the nation’s problems such as insecurity, ethnic strife among others.