Insecurity is Nigeria’s Covid-19, N400bn for vaccine procurement a waste says Bafarawa
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, has condemned the plan of the federal government to buy COVID-19 vaccines worth N400 billion as he termed insecurity as Nigeria’s Covid-19.
He said this while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday as he called out the government to use the planned money to tackle insecurity in the country instead of “wasting” it on vaccines.
According to the the PDP chieftain, only about 2000 people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria but within a year, over 300,000 persons have lost their lives to insecurity.
He said;
“Look at the amount they are proposing to buy the drugs, almost 60 percent of Nigerians don’t believe in this coronavirus and for the PTF to recommend N400 billion, you have to sensitise the people on the vaccine.
“These vaccines have a lifetime by the nature of our weather, maybe after some time, they will be of no use. Now, these vaccines have been meant for Europe. So, how do you expect to spend N400 billion to bring the drugs when people are not even convinced to take the drugs?
“Supposing people refuse to take the vaccines, the N400 billion becomes a waste. So, we have to sensitise people to agree that this coronavirus is real and the vaccines are real; let them be convinced. Remember what happened with the polio vaccine.
“Why can’t we divert this money for security? I’m saying this because the insecurity is Nigeria’s coronavirus. We don’t have much COVID -19 in Nigeria. It is my advice though that the federal government should pay even more attention to the issue of insecurity in the country and the north in particular, instead of emphasizing and spending huge sum of money on coronavirus, he added
that is good…COVID in 9ja is a scam but wasting resources on it is very bad when they have to tackle insecurities which is a major concerns now…
You spoke well but the money that they use to earnmarked for security of the country is more than N400 billion, is just that those in charge are mismanaging the fund.
Kudos to the Nigeria police force (NPF), they really tried in sensitising all police officers and I hope this change will continue in them.
Even the unemployment and the hunger in the land are also contribute to the menace of the country but the problem is that president buhari do not use to listen to people.
The money that they budgeted for the curbing of insecurity in the country, despite allocating huge amount of money for insecurity in the budget nothing to show for if. The state of insecurity in the country is worsen day by day.
To me I don’t even think Nigerians are ready to take that drugs
We all know this ptf they are there to loot there own national cake, look at the amount of money this people are mentioning. For only Covid-19 people that I don’t even believe in.