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*Choosing between two evils and the sentiments*

By Jamiu Ganiyu

As each country all over the world is dealing with its own share of the global pandemic, COVID-19 which has brought the entire world to its knees for a couple of months now.
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Each country is counting its losses without end in sight. While the pandemic mostly affected some of the best countries one can think of in terms of standard of living, quality of life, infrastructure, and lawfulness, the developing countries of the world,
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Nigeria inclusive is not left out of the world ravaging pandemic.

However, different measures have been put in place to check the outbreak of the virus by each country depending on their situation and circumstance but the

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general one has been total or partial lockdown of their cities and towns so as to check the movement of people thereby reducing a person to person contact and transfer of the virus from an infected person to uninfected ones.
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However, there is a continuous debate by opinion molders, medical experts, economists, business leaders, development practitioners among other major stakeholders as the lockdown is telling seriously on all facets of life especially
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the downtrodden who belong to the informal sectors and rely so much on daily earnings.

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I have however observed that most people advocating against the #EasingTheLockdown are either drawing money from the public purse, work with a multinational or company that offers essential services. Can we at least consider over 100 million Nigerians?
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who are artisans, traders whose capital is less than 20k & have exhausted all without means to eat let alone of getting back to business? And have dependents to feed without government support.
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Most of the govt. palliatives were entirely politicised while various organs of govt. insisted they have data of the poorest of the poor who are being attended to.

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While it is obvious that we lack the health care infrastructure to manage the outbreak of the pandemic, continuously shutting down of the economy especially the informal sectors which put food on table 85% Nigerians is not the best way to go.
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Rather, I will advise continuously engagement, public enlightenment, compulsory use of face masks, and observation of social distancing.

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Besides, this is the best time to do something unusual by concentrating our effort on developing orthodox medicine (herbs) in fighting the pandemic. The government & all it's regulating agencies should provide the needed support to this sector to level up with global practices.

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