I flew from Juba, South Sudan ecstatic that I made it after months of restriction. Not even the checks endured at the Juba airport could prepare me for what was ahead in Bole Airport Addis in Ethi...
I flew from Juba, South Sudan ecstatic that I made it after months of restriction. Not even the checks endured at the Juba airport could prepare me for what was ahead in Bole Airport Addis in Ethiopia. Upon disembarking in Addis, we were ferried in a shuttle bus to the arrival lounge to face a tiresome and rigorous airport check that will annoy even the Pope. Temperatures were taken and those transiting had their hotel reservations.
Next day, I arrived Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a country where COVID-19 is nonexistent. Or so they believe. A guy who flew with me from Addis to Dar, who works in an international bank in Dubai, picked up conversation with me. He was attracted to me because of my guttural Nigerian accent he said, because he was born in Lagos. His father was an ambassador. Immediately we got to Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport, his father called him and asked him to remove ‘that rubbish’.
I thought that it was only Nigeria that is a one-day, one-tragedy country. Kenya and Uganda have slammed their land borders and airspace against Tanzanians. This pandemic has been a tragedy and teacher rolled in one. Those who ignored the experts and promoted misinformation are merely accomplices and accessories to the fact and by default spreading the pandemic.
Tanzania is on offensive against a snake but sadly allowing it to tailwind away with the head untouched. When the snake roars back in vengeance mission, it will leave a trail of obliteration and annihilation on its wake. They should read the textbook lecture from Brazil, Burundi and Mexico all of them countries that downplayed or denied the existence of Covid-19.
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