Kennedy Kwentua
This is shameful and a brutal attestation to the failure of our system to offer the citizens some real sense of rational governance.
As nations adopt the social distancing and safety measures to curb the spread of the dreaded COVID-19, Nigeria is going gung Ho, swallowing hook, line and sinker drastic measures being rolled out by other nations without a defined methodic plan for the containment, testing, prevention and welfare of the citizens in terms of food, income subsidies, relief materials and safe movements of goods and people without exacerbating the situation as it stands.
Some Governors have closed entry routes into their states in panic; a foolhardy way of prevention without considering the health and financial safety of the dwellers of their states.
Restricting movements has its legal implication but it ought to have been in phases and not a silver bullet that should be shoved down the peoples’ throat without the opportunity costs’ consideration.
In every home, there is now absolute confusion on the next realistic alternative line of action to follow, a modified, reliable plan B, along with the question like “How do we progress with our daily lives amid a pandemic that has threatened the lives of our loved ones, friends and colleagues at work, stopped air traffic travels, Rail line trips , closed schools, shut down sporting events and movie theaters?”
How do these actions by Governors make sense besides preventing interactions and deepening fear and loathing and festering deprivation of all sorts?
It goes to show that we lack proper leadership whose new preoccupation is to literary cut and paste foreign policies and agendas without a road map. This ‘monkey see monkey do’, ape mentality goes to show how inept our democratic practice has foisted low-grade functional illiterates on us all as leaers.
COVID 19 has exposed not just the poor health care delivery and management systems but the nuisance level of our social engineers who lack the basic prerequisite skills of proper planning and strategic thinking to govern a people under debilitating circumstances.
Finally my joy is that the restriction also impacts heavily on the government official’s medical tourism and money laundering, round tripping all over the globe. Inadvertently stopping them from not escaping the derelict system they manufactured and dished to the poor and are now to taste their own medicine…lolzzz
