Covidiots and Nigeria’s COVID-19 challenge

ri, the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, and earlier this week, the Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Wahab Adegbenro, there are still many Nigerians who live in denial of the devastating reality of this merciless and classless virus. So far, more than five state governors have tested positive for the virus while the Imo State House of Assembly had to be shut down for two weeks after about 13 lawmakers were infected.

On Wednesday, a visibly agitated Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prof Placid Njoku, at an event at the state capital, Owerri, lamented that some residents of the state “still do not take the virus seriously.” He reiterated that the “coronavirus pandemic is a very serious challenge to the entire world of which Imo is not an exemption.” Not surprisingly, the state got 20 new cases on Wednesday when the country recorded its daily biggest haul of 790 cases.

Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, out of desperation, said it was contemplating collaborating with state governments to see how “18 high-burden” local government areas in the country could be locked down to contain the spread of the virus. Eleven of the 18 LGAs are located in Lagos. They are, Mushin, Eti-Osa, Alimosho, Kosofe, Ikeja, Oshodi/Isolo, Apapa, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos Island and Surulere.

Last Saturday, I met two such raging covidiots in my estate in Lagos. A middle-aged man and a young lady to boot. At different times and locations. But they were united in their shared idiocy in not believing that coronavirus is real. To me, those were no questions deserving of my dignifying response. I left him to his cherished ignorance.

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