There Is Danger In Extending Lockdown In Lagos, Abuja – Adesunbo Warns FG

The Federal Government have been urged to relax the total lockdown order earlier issued as it may lead to aggression from citizens due to severe hunger and sufferings.

Nigerian socio-political activist, Adesunbo Onitiri while speaking in a press briefing in Lagos State on Friday, advised the state government and the Federal Government of Nigeria not to extend the ongoing lockdown in both Lagos and FCT.

Adesunbo, however, suggests that President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos should relax the lockdown and find a way of managing the global pandemic.

According to him, citizens might react furiously after days of hunger and severe suffering.

“What the government should do urgently is to peg the astronomical rise in food prices, provide drugs in government hospitals and offer free healthcare packages for the people,” said Chief Onitiri.

“This is the time to suspend taxes and drastically reduce the tax for the poor masses and provide free electricity for the poor.”

“If there is any lesson to be learnt from this COVID 19 pandemic, it is that we need to improve our healthcare system and education. We need to spend more on education of the masses and our health care.”

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari says the Presidential Task Force on Control of COVID-19 has briefed him on the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria, Naija News report.