The national chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP) Chekwas Okorie has appealed to government to relax the lockdown measures imposed on the people by state and federal government.
He urged government not copy method applied in advance climes like Europe and America, whose socio-economic well being are well above Nigerian.
He suggests that government should not extend the lockdown beyond the due date, but to device other strategic measure that will be peculiar to the country’s incident case to enable the people go back to work.
Facing rising unemployment with many citizens struggling to make ends meet occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, governments around the world are wrestling with when and how to ease the restrictions designed to control the spread of the disease.
Mandatory lockdowns to stop the spread of the new virus, which has so far infected more than 2.2 million people worldwide and for which there is no vaccine, have brought widespread hardship to many families across the globe.
Several measures have been introduced to flatten the spread of the pandemic, which many say is working, with the rate of new infections disease slowly rising in Nigeria as response to the lockdowns, which the UPP national chairman wants government to consider to avert insecurity and public insurrection that may be strike by the prolong stay at home due to hunger.
While evaluating the socio-economic loss plus less political activities which the lockdown have cost Nigerians, the politician raised a suggestive prowess that government should intensify efforts to increase testing capacity nationwide to enable it cover more active cases across the country, to avert death cases that might emanate from Hunger, according to him would outweigh the death from the Coronavirus pandemic.
Some of the residents of the state shared diverse opinions about the call to relax the lockdowm measure, which many say it may case dark a shadow on the efforts exacerbated by government to curb the spread of CoronaVirus disease.
With the rate of new infection cases to curb the spread of the coronavirus slowly rising in Nigeria as response to the lockdowns measure, most governments and public health officials remain cautious about relaxing the shutdowns, despite the mounting economic toll.
Africa being one of the world’s poorest regions now recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths, among them the Nigerian president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, indicating that most of those sickened by the virus recover.
The outbreak has killed at least 154,000 people worldwide, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally based on figures supplied by government health authorities around the globe.
