AT the start of the first working week of the year, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 took up full-page coloured advertisement in all major newspapers to issue a public notice that has absolutely nothing to do with general public. The advertisement is neither another new guideline nor even a re-statement of the old guidelines and protocols in the prevention and management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the first place the general public for whom the expensive advertisement was meant has nothing to do with it. Even if the advert was meant to shame the alleged defaulters, they were not even revealed to the public; therefore, the defaulters have nothing to worry about public opprobrium for their alleged delinquent and risky behaviours.
On January 4 , the same day that the advert was syndicated in many newspapers, the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, said that it has not received any instruction or directive on the travel restriction imposed on passengers by the Federal Government for allegedly flouting the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test.Spokesman of the NIS, Mr.
Before anyone claims that the advert was meant to deter prospective or intending defaulters, the story of government’s hammer falling on defaulters of COVID-19 protocols is sufficiently newsworthy to be run by any credible news outlet and that would have more deterrent effect than over-bloated and opaque advert that only gulped public money.
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