COVID-19: Akinlade raises alarm over Ogun porous borders, advises Gov Abiodun
The governorship candidate of the Allied People’s Movement , Hon. Adekunle Akinlade in the 2019 election in Ogun State has raised the alarm over the porous nature of the international borders in Ogun, describing them as potential windows to the importation and spread of coronavirus pandemic within local communities.
In a statement made available to DAILY POST on Monday, Akinlade expressed concerns that the porousity of borders in Ogun is a bigger danger that is being ignored or overlooked by the state government. Akinlade, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , hinted that many of the returnees may be carriers of the disease, “thus exposing local communities to the virus through community infections.”
He also advised Abiodun to domesticate the entire care process by setting up isolation centres in each of the four Local Governments to encourage trust, adding that the approach will enhance efforts made so far and reduce a possible second wave of the pandemic in the nation.
“It is a known fact that majority of Nigerians from border communities live and trade in neighbouring countries like Benin Republic, Niger among others. They cross between those states with ease thus with the global economic meltdown, occasioned by COVID-19, many Nigerians are returning home in their hundreds through those unmanned routes.
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