Strictly a Personal Opinion..
By Greg Ighodaro.
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.
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