Okrika clothes, textiles can import coronavirus – NEMA warn Nigerians
NEMA head of Imo/Abia operations, Evans Ugoh said this in Owerri while addressing disaster stakeholders in a workshop on Sunday organized by NEMA.COVID-19 as a global pandemicHe noted that the continuous patronage of imported fairly used textile, fairly used clothes is a direct invitation of the virus into Nigeria.
Ugoh urged the federal government to place serious sanctions on importation of fairly used textiles in other to discourage smugglers from bringing them into the country. “This is a message to all Nigerians who are in the habit of patronizing fairly used clothes imported from abroad particularly contact countries
“We should be aware that those already diagnosed with the virus abroad could also dispose their clothes where it could eventually be imported to Nigeria”, he added.The agency also called for inclusion of disaster management as part of academic course in universities and polytechnic curriculum.
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