Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, says politicians are playing games with the lives of Nigerians amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Bello spoke on Thursday as he received the board of trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation who paid him a courtesy call in his Lokoja office.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
The governor restated his earlier comments that the late chief judge of Kogi, Justice Nasir Ajana, did not die of coronavirus.
According to him, Njana had been managing his health since 2016 and only died because he could not receive good medical care 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.
