The current packages – all of them almost exclusively bearing the names of ruling governments – are a recipe for scandal. The packages, as currently structured by donors, would only give charity a bad name.
Global response to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Africa has been remarkable, especially following fears that should the virus take hold, its impact on the continent could be catastrophic.
And Nigeria, the continent’s most populous, has been right up there on the league table of COVID-19 package recipients. The world is in tears but the eyes shedding the bitter tears can still see and the grieving hearts are asking questions. Relief distribution in that country has become so dangerously politicised and weaponised that the opposition, civil society and the media are compelled to ask if COVID-19 has party colours or if the virus knows only the residential addresses of opposition parties.
A number of communities in the South east controlled by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party , have complained openly of neglect in the distribution of relief materials at the height of the five-week lockdown between March and May, for example.
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