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I know you
already have your reservations against my caption, but you might want to keep
them under bucket until you get to the end of this article, just follow closely
and let’s review this together.
Towards the
end of last month a deadly and very contagious disease EVD (EBOLA virus
disease) was said to have resurfaced after some patients started showing the
symptoms’ again. The deadly disease known to have started way back as at the
70’s has found its way amongst humans again and this time more effectively.
The
substantiation of all the stories there is about this disease is barely my
business, but how the government of Nigeria, known to take advantage of any
situation, especially negative, for their political and selfish gains, may have
gotten into this global pandemonium to sieve out the gold that might be
imbedded in the outbreak of this disease. Nigerians are known to deal with
situation of the moment and have a tendency of forgetting previous national
events if introduced to new ones. As far as I’m concerned, facts and figures
might be right about the swift spread of EVD but not even a blind man is
ignorant of the Political devices thoroughly aimed at the masses the government
is suppose to serve just to create an unsettled atmosphere perfect for them to
strike their strategies.
Just
recently, the tag #Bring back our girls became almost as popular as the name
Jesus, but because of our lack of focus as a people and a nation, we’ve lost
focal point of “that” national event and has moved forward into #Ebola,
irrespective of how the story of the over 200 Chibok girls ends. Now grants and
supports are being given from health organization around the world to contain
this dreadful disease and the good news is Nigerian government received a large
sum of the support given except that they’ve used it to build under average
facilities and spread unnecessary panic.
I like the
fact that everyone should wash their hands and do more healthy exercise. It’s
good, I mean people should be clean but In my candid opinion, the government
has found a ground to shift our focus off the Chibok girls that are somewhere
within the country, hopefully, living under torment and forced doctrines of
their abductors. Guess what, this Ebola is strong enough to scare the whole
world but won’t stop the campaign exercise(s) of our political leaders who are
almost not concerned. As a matter of fact, the number of fliers and publicity
given to the masses concerning Ebola is not close to the publicity they’ve
given to political aspirants for the election that is still a year away.
Secondly,
the government is proposing to stop gatherings where this contagious disease
can find an opportunity. Churches, schools etc are being advised to stop
meeting to contain Ebola, but there is no gathering as much as the kind of
crowd we have during campaigns, if the government is serious about containing
this disease, the first measure is to stop campaigns that have the highest plausibility
of spreading Ebola.
The
government will not be moved by this observation, but as a nation, we have a
choice not to move in the direction this government known for treating
situations trivially and milking out all there is available to fill their
pockets and gain more power. We have an option to still help the Chibok girls
raise a voice of freedom and help their families smile again.
Not a
sentence in this article have I mentioned that Ebola is not real and have I
opposed the facts, but this disease in the hands of Nigerian government is just
another opportunity to break higher political grounds and shift our attention
away from the problems we were dealing with before the outbreak of EBOLA.
Spread the news, make some noise about this, we refuse to be gullible again,
because what will eventually happen is, this Ebola disease will be contained,
maybe or maybe not, but the government won’t stop to oppress us with their
selfish agendas. My advice “FOCUS”
PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
Greg
Ighodaro
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