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Nigeria was shouting that her air borders was opened to the world when other developed countries were shutting theirs, I am 100% because I observed closely. If you think we doing good with the pandemic wait till this time next month. Una eye go clear by then. God's in charge ❤️

Coming from a chief ZOMBIE, certainly can't take this thread serious.

Yeah 100% sure of that

kikero:
Good point you made OP

But the harsh truth is that in 2015, a lot of people voted for APC expecting something different from PDP...not the same old same old show

That's what is annoying and hurting a lot of people.

The truth is, until we get a government that can truly diversify our economy so that we can have the cash we need to adequately fund health.....we will always be in the same problem whatever new virus or bacteria comes our way.

Nigeria would never have a Messiah.

Nigerians are hardwired to complain, cheat, be primitive whilst adding religion to their everyday ordeals.

If Nigerians saw a Messiah would they recognise him?

Would their inherent proclivity for tribal and partisan politics allow them support his actions?

Would their primordial instincts be relegated to the background whilst their hunger for development and a positive atmosphere takes a dominant hold?

Your guess is as good as mine.

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.

If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

You are as biased as the people you impugn as "ignorant commenters".
I honestly do not have the patience to complete reading your disgusting piece.
In your paragraph 2, the federal government began testing temperature of incoming travellers before it was discovered.
How many cases were they able to detect at the point of entry?
In summary, the government was unresponsive of the looming danger.

helinues:
Are you guys not creative enough to counter this?

Must you always be aggressive?

just imagine how they call out other rubbishing their opinion but in the end they won't say a single word to prove their madness.

Many people on this thread but they are quiet. There is nothing Buhari does that makes sense to them.

pricklewane:
Lunatics from Igboland who happens to be the most populous among Igbos on NL can not counter. They are recruited in droves only to make senseless comment.

Aptly stated.

This is my opinion: the fact that many Nigerians have not gravely fallen ill or many victims are not dropping dead is a matter of Providence.

Somehow, God has curtailed the number of casualty in this country.

tot:
Coming from a chief ZOMBIE, certainly can't take this thread serious.

Then delete yasef

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.

If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

First of all, why did they wait for Buhari's daughter to arrive from UK before closing borders?

Two, why was it that Abba Kyari wasn't put in Isolation as he arrived from his trip from Europe knowing that Europe was already in panic mode then?

Three, I do not need to compare Nigeria and UK.... Let us first start from our African neighbour's which are Ghana and Kenya.... Look at how their government handled theirs and truthfully tell yourself if our own government did well at all.

Lastly, that our infected cases is minimal to that of Europe and America shouldn't mean we should sing praises to the government. Has South Sudan reported any case? That they haven't.. Does it mean they are doing a better job that America and Europe?

That we are *LUCKY* that same God that saved us from ebola seems to be at work at this time of coronavirus shouldn't mean the government shouldn't step up their game instead of trying to compare themselves with other countries.

Finally, asides that at the moment, our statistics of recorded infected and dead patients are low at the moment..... What are the government plans in respect of the economic impacts of the virus?

2 trillion dollars in America, billions of dollars in Canada and some European countries, how much has our government set aside and how do they plan to disemburse the money without looting by criminal elements?

OP you are saying real rubbish especially that your number 1...most of the carriers of this disease are returnee from these top countries if there was proper screening at the airport will this have happened

ArisingStorm:
Wait till Saturday, and see confusion that is about to erupt in the country due to poor management.

I've been hearing this for more than two weeks.

Itemmanu:
Gibberish

Serious Gibberish.
Dont mind all these paid and unpaid, APC Minions.
The fact that he started his propaganda tale with the word "Wailers", esposed where his sympathy lies.

A govt that does not have the commonsense to ban flights and quarrantine people travelling from "High Risk Countries" like Italy, Spain, US and the UK, into Nigeria, including Abba Kyari and the Presidents daughter, when the Virus was already in a pandemic stage in the UK and those countries, especially Italy, is the one that the guy is praising?

He really must be high on some cheap 'shots'.

A Govt that does not know nor put into consideration, the nature and poverty level of at least 70% of Nigerians, who live on day-to-day earnings but wants to copy America and Europe in instituting a lockdown of over 40Million people, is what he wants us to consider as successful? A Govt that puts the Cart before the Horse?

A Govt that lies to its people and hides the details of the infection, a Govt that is so clueless as to know that Nigerians are not used to nor would adhere to "Self Quarrantine" is the one he is clapping forr?

A Govt that is chasing 5over 5,000 infected Contacts who are busy infecting other in the populace, a Govt that cant even handle ordinary arrival documentation of New arrivals at the airport, is what he wants us to give a standing ovation?

The fact that our infection is minimal at this point, has nothing to do with Govt efforts, it is basically a question of luck, lack of Testing to expose the magnitude in the population, our enviromental properties like peppery diet, high temperature, and genetic-immuno resistance.
Dont ascribe it to the nonsense this Govt is all about.

How much is this article worth? A bucket of Poopoo.

Anyway, hypocrites and praise-singers looking to take a bite of the National loot are not in short supply in this Nigeria, by their words, you shall know them.
I dont need any lame response, that epistle is enough.

Benda59:
Nigeria was shouting that her air borders was opened to the world when other developed countries were shutting theirs, I am 100% because I observed closely. If you think we doing good with the pandemic wait till this time next month. Una eye go clear by then. God's in charge ❤️

We know that is what you are waiting for. The God we serve in this country will not allow this pandemic grow beyond our capacity and neither will the pandemic get to my house or yours by his grace. Be positive. Life is short for hatred

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.

If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

Ajibade123:
OP you are saying real rubbish especially that your number 1...most of the carriers of this disease are returnee from these top countries if there was proper screening at the airport will this have happened

There was NO PROPER screening at the airports, that is precisely how FG and El-dullardeen have mishandled the covid-19 pandemic.
Sai Mama


CC lzaa itooworwor metaphysical johnmartus

With the benefit of hindsight...

1.We should have stared agrresive testing as early as Janurary. Test everyone flying from a country that is affected...and quarantine them till their results come out

2.Isolate everyone that tests positive.

This our president dey watch hand as if he never see water before shey?

All these people complaining about not closing the borders in time are not informed of the fact that NO COUNTRY on earth can close its borders to it's own citizens. No country has closed their borders to their own citizens. That's the height of stupidity and carelessness.

Excuzeme:
Serious Gibberish.
Dont mind all these paid and unpaid, APC Minions.
The fact that he started his propaganda tale with the word "Wailers", esposed where his sympathy lies.

A govt that does not have the commonsense to ban flights and quarrantine people travelling from "High Risk Countries" like Italy, Spain, US and the UK, into Nigeria, including Abba Kyari and the Presidents daughter, when the Virus was already in a pandemic stage in the UK and those countries, especially Italy, is the one that the guy is praising?

He really must be high on some cheap 'shots'.

A Govt that does not know nor put into consideration, the nature and poverty level of at least 70% of Nigerians, who live on day-to-day earnings but wants to copy America and Europe in instituting a lockdown of over 40Million people, is what he wants us to consider as successful? A Govt that puts the Cart before the Horse?

A Govt that lies to its people and hides the details of the infection, a Govt that is so clueless as to know that Nigerians are not used to nor would adhere to "Self Quarrantine" is the one he is clapping forr?

A Govt that is chasing 5over 5,000 infected Contacts who are busy infecting other in the populace, a Govt that cant even handle ordinary arrival documentation of New arrivals at the airport, is what he wants us to give a standing ovation?

How much is this article worth? A bucket of Poopoo.

Anyway, hypocrites and praise-singers looking to take a bite of the National loot are not in short supply in this Nigeria, by their words, you shall know them.
I dont need any lame response, that epistle is enough.

I am sure you can read. Do you have anything to discredit the message? Leave the messenger for now

Wallade:
Did you just ask if Federal Government(FG) handled this Covid 19 matter appropriately?

The answer from me is "No, FG didn't handle it appropriately".

As much as I don't want to dwell on the past, I must say that the first major miss was the inability of the FG, upon discovery of the index case (Italian man) in Nigeria, to stop all international flights in and out of Nigeria and simultaneously restrict border movements and enabling effective testing at border gates for people who must exit and enter Nigeria.

That is the reason we are in this mess so it is annoying and insensitive to have you put up this topic and try to justify FG actions with the body of your topic. I am more alarmed because you seem to be one of the e-rats on the employment of APC. How much do you guys get paid these days?

Lmaooo It's still the same 30k and by the time you factor in inflation that would work out to about 20k

Adakintroy2:
Jonathan would have ushered in a new Era of educated mind and behaviour. but primitive tribal lifeforms would not have it. They are real virus destroying our population.

Do you know if it was.Jonathan that issue a total locks own on lagos the yorubas would have rovolt. Now that it's their master, no noise was made.master is always right

What has Jonathan got to do with this? He is not in government, why don't you talk about those in government like your most revered Buhari.

PassingShot:
I've been hearing this for more than two weeks.

Naso you know lie how you dey?

Monkey dey work Baboon dey chop. Let's thank God that Lagos did not mismanage the first case. If FG was up and doing, we would have had only the Italian case.

ariefadenco:
You are as biased as the people you impugn as "ignorant commenters".
I honestly do not have the patience to complete reading your disgusting piece.
In your paragraph 2, the federal government began testing temperature of incoming travellers before it was discovered.
How many cases were they able to detect at the point of entry?
In summary, the government was unresponsive of the looming danger.

Great, which govt was indeed responsive to the looming danger then? I mean, tell us an example of the govt we should have emulated.
What many of you wailers don't accept is that this disease is unavailable. It will reach almost every known country of the world.

Oche211:
Good...
Actually, hatred has blinded so many people to reality.
Personally, my only issues with the FG was the fact that they failed to close our airports earlier than they did.
At the moment, it will be useless comparing naija style of handling the pandemic with that of other countries. We are better Biko.
USA and Europe is overwhelmed.
We should thank God and commend our officials especially the doctors.
They have been awesome.
This isn't the time for sentiment or hate filled ranting like most wailers do.

God will continue to bless you. I love this write up.

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.

If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

For this you deserve N31,000 from BMC.

Not the N3,000 stipend for April.

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hmohammed:
Then delete yasef

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