Even when Nigeria is nowhere close to getting out of the wood in its battle against the novel coronavirus, the nation’s governors appeared to have let down their guards just so soon because of religious considerations, thereby putting the lives of thousands of citizens at risk.
Nigeria has few COVID-19 testing laboratories and inadequate, even decrepit, medical facilities to manage infected persons, compared with the country’s over 200 million population. “In the Spirit of Easter and after a careful review of the state of COVID-19 situation in our State, we have decided to temporarily relax the restriction on large religious gathering,” the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, announced in a statewide broadcast on Thursday.
The Rivers governor has been in the news lately because of the controversial arrest, arraignment, and detention of two pilots working with a logistics company, Caverton Helicopters, whom he accused of flying “illegally” into Rivers against an order barring vehicles and flights from entering the state because of the pandemic.Aside from the pilots, 10 of the aircraft passengers have been remanded in Port Harcourt prison after they were charged before a chief magistrate on Tuesday.
In Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello, Thursday, said residents were now free to go to mosques and churches for their prayers.“We also urge churches and mosques to make their services as brief as possible in order not to keep a large crowd of worshipers within enclosed confinement,” Mr Bello was quoted to have said.
In Bauchi, the state governor, Bala Mohammed, and other government officials were among Muslim faithful who attended Friday prayers at the Bauchi Central mosque. The governor came out from a 14-day isolation about 24 hours ago after recovering from the virus.
What you should also know about the pandemic here in Nigeria.
They want Nigeria to become the new USA with such grave numbers of infections
You left out Niger State ooo.
Ameenu_Kutama What a headline
Thegrey8 ...so after two weeks of lock down ,. Corona will disappear. Nigeria should start thinking about working in the midst of these viral infections. It can be likened to dying of Malaria fever in a western country, cause you will be quarantined for starters.
Let’s clap 👏 👏👏👏👏for them ....🤙🤙🤙...
Religion is a very strong deceptive tool to get to power. The are playing to the gallery
..... Relaxing lockdown is a strategy to have more number of cases so as to have more funds/donations to share...... Only an irresponsible father will endanger the lives of his children....
Take my Governor Wike out. He has been very proactive in the fight against Covid! He has not relaxed at all.
You left out Ayade of X-River.
I Don carry 2 governor, Amiru Masari & Yahya Bello.
Fools in Power
May it at this point be made clear that GovBello is sabotaging the efforts of NCDCgov in keeping Nigerians alive.
This is what you get when you elect educated illiterates to governance.
Nobody has monopoly of stupidity... either they are APC or PDP they all have it in abundance.
How long shall we be locked down?
SERAPNigeria Lol
We fear hunger more than Corona..
Alhayat_dot_Ng If to say these governors are all northerners, they would have cursed our ancestors by now
SERAPNigeria Very irresponsible set of people.
Many are called chosen are few and you people are the chosen once amongst the devil and if anyone chooses to quarrantin his or herself should just dug a grave of enternal quarrantin than coming here to defends rubbish.
SERAPNigeria But all die na die nah, I said this because it is difficult to do the right thing in our country.
Some of these governors wish they had enough COVIDー19 cases in their states, to enable them claim the COVIDー19 support funds from the FG! 😒😒
Where is Akeredolu's picture?
If the states are not hit hard,they will not get money from federal government or donations. Pls stay at home,protect yourself and family.
They're too big for the law. They don't know that Covid-19 doesn't respect 'BIGNESS'
The Governors knows that COVIDー19 is not real.
If the governors are foolish and stupid, the people should not be....a case study of the Catholic bishop in rivers state
Set of yeye governors
Men wants donations too.
Nigeria has not flattened the curve of new cases of COVID-19. It time MBuhari put the whole country on LOCKDOWN. Our instances as gone beyond the containment phase, it is the obvious and sensible thing to do at this point is to lockdown. NCDCgov GovWike ProfOsinbajo GovBello
Ignorance, wickedness or defiance?
The stupid onces
The governors to my understanding, just need the palliative the federal govt gave Lagos state.
Some of these men have only cold water in their brains
They want their number to escalates so that can get huge money like Lagos from FG. Look at WIKE is frustrated and BALA look stupid for doing that
What of Ondo state governor
Govidiots..
They never endanger anyone's life. They act upon the masses agitation. After all, those new cases NCDC said they confirmed, those people didn't come out yet the coro visit them.
They're not endangering lifes just letting you know there's no time to keep pretending for so long.
What should we tell them? It's left for he people to decide. They didn't force anyone to gather na. If the governors are irrational, let the fools amongst the people go irrational. Natural selection is still valid.
Let's us celebrate Easter. It's not a matter of endangering life
They should be held accountable for any death henceforth. These Governors are very idiotic in thinking and they lack understanding of the degree of the danger their pronouncements could cause. Encouraging gatherings at this time is nothing short of suicide. Shame
These so calked GOV's are just playing with wild fire. D consequences of this action at this time could lead 2 a castatrophy of unimaginable proportion . The devastation today in US,UK,Italy and Spain can happen to any other country cos of complacency
These ones are irresponsible leaders and they should be held accountable for any increase in the Covid-19 incidents. Sensible and reasonable leaders will not endanger people’s well-being based on religion. Useless people.
In the exact words of Mike_Pence. We know is Easter but maintain all recommended guidelines to control spread of Covid-19... StayhomeNigerians StayHomeSaveLives Mathew18:20
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