Kogi State Governor,
Yahaya Bello, has accused politicians of using the COVID-19 pandemic to play
with the lives of Nigerians.
Governor Bello said
this while playing host to the Board of
Trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation who paid him a courtesy call
in his Lugard House office in Lokoja today July 2,
“Let us stop this
game. Nigerians are suffering. Instead of the lockdown with its attendant
negative effects on the people, why can’t we turn it to employment
opportunities, providing clothes for face masks to be imported to those
countries who have the disease.
COVID-19 is not a
new disease in our climate, we have our own way of treating it, that is what we
should be exploiting rather than subjecting our people to hardship, hunger, and
starvation through the lockdown.” Bello said
He maintained that
the late Chief Judge of the state, Justice Nasir Ajana, did not die of
COVID-19. He said the late Ajana had been managing his health since 2016. The
governor said that the complications that eventually led to his death were as a
result of the inability to be attended to medically due to the lockdown.
“We know his medical
history, he was my brother, we know we have been managing him since 2016 but
this time, he was completely isolated. No one was allowed to even speak to him
until he passed away. We cannot afford to be playing games with lives of
Nigerians, this must stop” Bello said
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