The Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, has claimed politicians are playing games with Nigerians amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“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 into employment opportunities; providing clothes for face masks to be exported to those countries who have the disease?
“COVID-19 is not a new disease in our clime. We have our own way of treating it and that is what we should be exploiting, rather than subjecting our people to hardship, hunger and starvation through lockdown,” Bello said.
As at Thursday, Nigeria had 26,484 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Of that number, only four patients are in Kogi State.
