LUCKY LAWAL
After Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, announced the plan to
relax the lockdown over Covid-19 pandemic, some citizens were not in agreement
with the decision of the Federal Government and that of Lagos State due to the
increase in the numbers of locally contacted Covid-19 virus patients.
According to a Maritime Editor and analyst, Comrade Innocent Orok, it has
become clear that the Federal Government is showing lack of care
and insensitivity to Nigerians in protecting them against the Coronavirus
pandemic, especially in Lagos State.
The Federal Government had pronounced total lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and FCT in
the last one month plus. But sadly, there is no provision of palliatives,
especially for Lagosians, even in the purported dubious N5,000 gift,
Lagos was excluded. Yet Lagos State is the most affected and vulnerable state
with rising number of positive cases of the Covid-19 on a daily
basis.
Comrade Orok lamented that just in less than 24 hours after recording one of
its lowest numbers of cases in recent times, Nigeria has recorded its highest
daily tally as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 195
new cases of Covid-19 in the country, as at yesterday 28th April, 2020.
According to him, this represents a 305% increase in just one day and should
be a cause for worry, not just for the NCDC and Government, but for
Nigerians as a whole even as government recently announced plans to relax
the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun, FCT from Monday, 4th May, 2020.
He further analyzed that as at yesterday, Lagos State had 80 cases out of the
total of 195 Covid-29 positive cases recorded; doubling the 34 cases
recorded the previous day. Lagos State alone now has 844 cases and
the number is still rising geometrically.
Despite the alarming increasing numbers, because the government cannot and do
not know how to take care of its citizens in a time like this, we are likely to
have an explosion of positive cases in our hands as the Federal Government
relaxes the lockdown in Lagos State.
Comrade Orok advises Nigerians to please protect themselves and their families
by keeping all the precautions to stay safe.
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