Prof Soludo is right. We have to #liftthelockdown. But I would say 1 week extension first. This 1 week should be used to plan, teach and model how we can safely return to activity with minimal exposure. It will also be time to teach the procedures to leaders across board...
On face masks, crowd size limits, hand washing, markets/public place dis-infectation and daily cleaning. This is the time to have a new model of collective, communal cleanliness communicated and bought into by every leader all over the land.
Leaders must also enforce same.
Some would be careless, but we must all take responsibility. If we don't take these steps and continue with the lock down, people will end them on their own and it might be too late to expect proper behavior, safety or both.
Critically, we should not leave this pandemic without deciding to significantly change the course of our future. The quality of leadership we have endured in Nigeria in the last 50 years is shambolic and wasteful. Let us start now to strategize how different life should be.
One of the not surprising stat Prof Soludo mentioned was how under 8% have more money compared to the others and the burden we are on those who are privileged today. A society that thrives must be able to create prosperity for at least 50% of its people. 8% is too imbalanced.
A new Constitution will be required. Electoral reforms, unbundling of INEC and insistence on a different political class sworn to an easy recall process will be necessary to get Nigeria started on a true path to development.
On a final note, I urge African leaders of today to stay vigilant and prevent vaccine for profit schemes being planned in certain quarters. Population control efforts masquerading as vaccines program will be rife and Africa is their ideal ground. Stay woke and resist them.
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