“I do not see the same level of seriousness, the same level of coherence and deliberate, aggregated and aggressive management of this pandemic in our country.” Pandemic COVID19 Coronavirus
affecting the globe. In separate interactions recently, these concerned Nigerians said there was need for a more seriousness approach to managing the dreaded coronavirus, adding that adequate measures should be put in place to confront the pandemic.
The former military administrator of Ondo State said Nigeria is desperate for an assemblage of elders to salvage the country regardless of geographical or any other affiliations at this dangerous time. In line with George, Garba also expressed displeasure over the composition of PTF for COVID-19; so also Suraju, who said Nigeria could not continue the way it was doing things before with the outbreak of the pandemic that challenges the orthodoxy, suggesting that more determination was required to address the present challenges confronting the country.
The former Federal Road Safety Corps marshal said it was baffling that many Nigerians up till now are still in doubt about the reality of the pandemic, “not because they actually wanted to but due to the lackadaisical approach in which they believe government itself has been handling the management of the pandemic.”
Human rights lawyer, Professor Joy Ezeilo, tasked government to begin in earnest to plan ahead out of the economic recession the COVID-19 pandemic will create just as she urged the lawmakers across the country to take advantage of the pandemic to address the crisis of social security in the country. A university don, who specializes in public and private international law, Gbenga Odutan, said it was time Nigeria started anti-corruption awareness in financing of the healthcare system, adding, “The country is currently paying for its long term neglect of adequate financing of the healthcare sector, which the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously exposed.”
A member of Social Democratic Party and former Minister of Defence, Dr. Olu Agunloye, Coordinator for the Africa Health Budget Network, Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba, former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Olabode George, former National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congress , Dr. Muiz Banire and Chairman of Human and Environmental Development Agenda , Mr. Lanre Suraju expressed these concerns.
According to him, “It appears that our engagement of the coronavirus is at best sophomoric, indifferent, stripped of professional enlightenment, lacking in necessary comprehensive vigor to tackle heads-on this murderous scourge.” In line with George, Garba also expressed displeasure over the composition of PTF for COVID-19; so also Suraju, who said Nigeria could not continue the way it was doing things before with the outbreak of the pandemic that challenges the orthodoxy, suggesting that more determination was required to address the present challenges confronting the country.
The SDP stalwarts noted that one could not particularly blame the Buhari government for what is happening in the healthcare sector, saying, “It has been a problem previous administrations failed to deal with. There is no provision for Nigeria to handle this type of emergency situation it finds itself.”
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