Efik Leaders Write Buhari, Warn Cross River Poses Danger to Nigeria’s Effort to Contain COVID-19
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The leaders, under the auspices of Efik Leadership Foundation, said the nation had been treated to a series of bizarre theatrics from the state Governor, Ben Ayade, noting that he had relentlessly made public pronouncements against the directives of the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation on measures to manage the pandemic.
Noting that after using the fact that he has a Ph.D in an unrelated scientific field, Governor Ayade has touted patently false and misleading science as a basis for his actions, they said the governor’s various dangerous actions may have been overlooked as merely comical, but the supportive actions and pronouncements from the state Commissioner for Health and other acts of the government made them fear that the lives and health security of residents of the state had become endangered.“Mr.
“As prove of preparations to contain the disease, citizens are shown pictures of hotel facilities at the Tinapa Resort Hotel that are passed off by the state government as a 116-bed isolation centre. The sad truth, however, is that the only facility with some semblance of an isolation centre is a 4-bed building within the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital Complex.
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