Opinion: COVID-19: Wike’s Despotic Tendencies Must Be Checked, By Chris Amadi
We must rise up as a people who are legitimately part of Rivers State and question where Wike derives the wide-ranging powers he is exercising arbitrarily against innocent citizens, who are carrying out legitimate businesses in the State and paying taxes to the government. We can not continue to be victims of Wike’s caprices.
Wike’s actions since the outbreak of the pandemic, particularly in recent times, buttress the claims that he is utterly clueless, does not understand the full import of governance, and lacks a well-articulated strategy to combat the virus. For Wike, COVID-19 offers a perfect excuse to violate human rights, enforce his draconian orders and quarantine democracy. This reminds me of Marcus Tullius Cicero, who once warned us to beware of the leader who sets aside constitutional rules, while claiming the need for expediency or security.
While lockdown is a good control measure against the spread of the virus, it loses its essence when badly enforced. One would have expected that the governor would take advantage of the lockdown to fumigate public places, ramp up testing and put up more effective measures to help combat the virus. Sadly, what we have is the pathetic situation of the demolition of properties and auctioning of private vehicles.
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