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COVID-19 spreads relentlessly and records deaths approaching 300,000, infections 4,300,000, with around 4,700 recognised cases in Nigeria. Each of us who is in any way educated or well-informed about Covid19 has a huge responsibility of enlightenment and education to inform those around us about prevention including social distancing six feet apart.
Aside from that. Back to the poor… Where are these poor? Everywhere! The biggest health challenge to the world is not Covid19. It is the carelessness towards the poor who the politicians and economic leaders deliberately ignore. Politicians out of maliciousness, greed or ignorance systematically denied life-sustaining facilities like adequate sanitation, health, housing, transport to the less-than-wealthy citizens.
Today across the world millions of millionaires and thousands of billionaires are forced, under threat of Covid19, to sit at ‘Home Alone’. Money is not bad on its own. Not every billionaire is bad. All money is useless to all the dead. Their children do not guarantee eternal corporate existence. Eternal fame and shame are different sides of the same coin.
The Covid-19 has revealed self-worth jobs besides politics and business. Clapping and pressing car horns in honour of previously denigrated and insulted ‘essential workers’ like health workers, fire personnel, security staff, waste disposal and market staff is good. So, included in any such ‘Nigerian/World Anti-Poverty Strategic Plan’ plan must be improved survivable wages to the lower cadre of workers, and higher percentages allocated to schemes against poverty.
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