Members of Nigeria's House of Representatives recently took
delivery of 400 newly acquired Toyota Camry 2020 model, a spending citizens say
could have been channelled to funding Nigeria's deficient health sector.
The Nigerian Government, through the Federal Ministry of
Finance, has taken to micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to beg for ventilators
to be used on confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country.
Members of Nigeria's House of Representatives recently took
delivery of 400 newly acquired Toyota Camry 2020 model, a spending citizens say
could have been channelled to funding Nigeria's deficient health sector.
Musk, who is the founder and Chief Engineer, SpaceX, had
tweeted on Thursday that his firm had extra ventilators that had been approved
by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States.
He said, “We have extra FDA-approved ventilators. We will
ship to hospitals worldwide within Tesla delivery regions. Only requirement is
that the vents are needed immediately for patients and not stored in a
warehouse.”
In response, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and
National Planning asked the billionaire to give the extra ventilators to
Nigeria.
The tweet reads, “Dear @Elonmusk @Tesla, Federal Government
of Nigeria needs support with 100 to 500 ventilators to assist with Covid-19
cases rising every day in Nigeria.”
Recall that Nigeria recently received medical items from
Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma, to help combat the virus in the country.
At the moment, Nigeria has 174 confirmed cases of
Coronavirus and two recorded deaths.
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