6/2/2023 0 Comments Blueprint for armageddonWhat many are also advocating is that the government should go the extra mile by working out something across the board during the period. But many have questioned the methods employed to achieve the aim, describing it as selective or discriminative and fraught with fraud… especially in a cashless economy when such payments should have been made to individual accounts for proper accountability. He then announced some palliatives aimed at cushioning the negative groundswells that the lockdown would throw up, especially among those classified as the poor and vulnerable members of the society.Ĭonsequently, the process of dishing out N20,000 conditional cash transfers to vulnerable Nigerians has been activated through the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation on the grave situation and ordered a lockdown on Lagos state, the epicentre of the plague, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and Ogun state to slow down the rampage. The most worrisome of the steps so far taken is the stay-at-home order (curfew) or partial lockdown as obtained in places like the United States and the United Kingdom. Any gatherings exceeding between 20 and 50 people are prohibited.īoth the federal and state governments have been outsmarting one another with precautionary measures against the pandemic. Social distancing has become a sing-song. Market places, churches, mosques, etc., are not spared. All schools, low and high, have been dragged under lock and key till further notice. Social and economic activities have been put on hold. Some states like Niger and Kaduna have imposed curfews. Measures are being announced on daily basis to halt the dangerous march. In Nigeria, government at the federal and state levels has also swung into action. It is a war you prosecute from the comfort of your bedroom. The carriers of the deadly virus are the foot soldiers. APC here means Armoured Personnel Carriers and no logistics palaver. No fighter jets, no ground-to-air missiles, no APCs (not to be confused with the ruling political party in Nigeria). For a nation that knows next to nothing about God let alone fear Him, it can sacrifice a fraction of the population in an attempt to conquer the rest of the world, economically.Īnd what other weapon could be more potent to accomplish this misadventure other than COVID-19? It does not involve any deployment of arms and armaments. China has a population of over 1.1 billion. No nation goes to war and expects its troops to return home as they went… unscathed. In any war situation, there must be casualties. The argument is that why should China start the war with the United States from one of its most populous cities, Wuhan? Many Wuhanians were wasted by the cruel plague when it broke out.
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