The upsurge of rage by those who are aggrieved by our collective ineptitude and abdication of our responsibilities in tackling the Coronavirus epidemic “Round One” caught many of us offguard
. Matters were not helped by the somewhat cavalier attitude of the Government initially – it was the malcontents and doomsayers in a conspiracy with the opposition who were trying to make a mountain out of a molehill !! Besides, the Government actually issued an official statement that challenged the hue and cry over Coronavirus while Malaria, Lassa fever, HIV, and other diseases had been killing thousands of Nigerians annually without much fuss from the agitators and detractors.
It was my grandfather Dr. J.K. Randle who had direct experience of the Spanish Flu epidemic which raged in Nigeria between 1918 and 1919. At least 21 million people worldwide died from the disease over a 12-month period, becoming one of the world’s worst short-term demographic disasters. The disease was introduced into Nigeria by passengers and crews who came in to Nigeria via shipsfrom foreign countries affected by the influenza.
In the meantime, a commentator on social media has suggested that we should start by dumping the current National Anthem “Arise, O Compatriots” and revert to the old one “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” because bus conductors having distributed face masks in order to entice passengers insist on collecting them back as the passengers alight. They then proceed to hand over the “secondhand” used masks to the new batch of passengers !! Apparently, some banks did the same thing during the lockdown.
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