Confusion reigns as govt obfuscates on Chinese medical team vanguardnews
Governors Ben Ayade of Cross River and Yahaya Bello of Kogi have openly called it a hoax. To drive home his point that the coronavirus hullabaloo is a ruse, Bello organised a lecture at the Kogi State Government House, Lokoja, last week.
Does that make sense? Today, there are over 1,571,328 infections in the U.S., with 93,561 deaths. An economy that was flourishing only a couple of months ago has been hobbled. The terrible toll of the pandemic on the U.S. economy continued unabated last week as another three million people filed for unemployment benefits and official figures showed 40 per cent of low-earning families had now lost a breadwinner.
When it all started and as world leaders rose to the occasion, providing direction, President Muhammadu Buhari went into hiding. His aides said it was not his style to address the citizens in matters of grave national emergency. When his late chief of staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, contracted the virus, it was shrouded in secrecy. Nobody knew where he was when he opted to come to Lagos for treatment. Lagos State commissioner for health, Prof.
Mr. Micheal Jiang, Managing Director of CCECC Nigeria, was the first to fire the salvo when he issued a statement saying that his company arranged for the coming of the medics as part of its CSR. The Chinese Embassy in Abuja followed suit when it confirmed tothat the embassy was not directly involved in the coming, operations and activities of the medics in Nigeria.
Really? Did they need to come to Nigeria to do the video conferencing? Couldn’t they have done that from China? As if to add insult to injury, Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, confirmed Saixiong claims. Speaking during the presidential task force briefing on Tuesday, May 19, Aregbesola said the team is here “on the bill of a Chinese company working in Nigeria” to “share their experiences in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic”.
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