LOCUST YEARS:NIGERIANS WITH BEGGING BOWL ASK F ORLASSA FEVER

 

LOCUST YEARS:NIGERIANS WITH BEGGING BOWL ASK F OR LASSA FEVER

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,[LAGOS,NIGERIA]               

It was around some minutes after Nine in the morning of morning of 06/04/2020 ,this reporter had collected a bag of contaminated  rice from a  friend  that had donated  to Paedia Express Trust but which he felt was not good for human consumption and to which he had collected to be fed to livestocks .

Alas ,couple of friends stopped jokingly as they wanted to know what he was carrying and why he wanted  to throw it away.

Upon been told that rats had eaten parts of the food and this was why it was to be given to livestocks  instead of humans  for nutrition ,not less than eight able bodies Nigerians protested this subtly..

They all claimed that they had eaten such before and if they consumed it again they did not think that this will kill them.

At this point ,this reporter  while trying to be diplomatic and not offend his friends  still told them that he could not give it to them due to possible health risks.

The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria can now confirm that the aforementioned has now proven the sorry state of the average Nigerian as the reality of Covid-19 hits harder.

Multiple sources say that giving the rice to livestocks instead of man was callous as they were willing to risk things to put their lives in harm's way  since the government have refused to support them with the much needed palliatives to beat the Covid-19  big fight now on-going globally.

The commodity in question if properly valued could go for a N1,000 in the open or informed Nigerian market as at press time.

In a related issue,at The African Church Primary School in Ifako-Ijaiye ,Lagos, Nigeria recently members of the Disability Network Nigeria were feted by the local government as  part of the efforts by all the tiers of governance to rid the vulnerable groups of the society of possible hunger as Covid-19 digs deepr.

Many special Nigerians who had challenges with been disabled were seen collecting a big bag containing  beans,rice and Gari  hence helping the government to deny the fact that the good were being frittered away.

A source after carrying his consignment to his home was met by neighbors who wanted to know how he got the food materials in the first place.

One of the curious neighbors on sensing  that the good times  was now here for her next door neighbor told all at the gathering  on at least three different occasions that the disabled  man was her brother.

In a related issue,sometimes in the early  1980s and in the mid 1980s ,2 Nigerian public officials ,The Late Dr Umaru Dikko  who was the then Minister for Transport  and General David Mark  who apart from being Minister for Communications   later on in life became the Senate President  both threw decency into the winds  when they noted that Nigerians were not hungry  otherwise  they should have started picking  up foods  in the dust bin  while Senator Mark  added years later  that only the rich should  actually own a telephone  in the first place..

As at press time ,[a Nigerian names with held} has however angrily collected the bag of rice from this reporter and insisted that he did not care what Lassa Fever could do to him and  that no one could stop him from eating the rice ,all pleas to him on the risks involved failed .