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SUBAIR MOHAMMED walked through slums in Lagos State and reported situations making nonsense of social distancing regulation, which portends a new danger for government and people of the state.

RESIDENTS of Willoughby Street, Okobaba, a thickly populated slum community located in the Ebute-Metta (East) axis of Lagos State were relieved with the sight of a siren-blaring ambulance from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which was in their community to fetch three suspected coronavirus patients for treatment.

What was seen as a respite soon turned to apprehension and commotion by the time urchins took over the scene, holding the three suspected COVID-19 patients hostage and preventing the NCDC officials from gaining access into the building housing them. They insisted money must be paid to them either by the patients or the NCDC officials before they would allow the evacuation exercise and the commencement of the required test and treatment. They chorused, “E fun wa lowo wa” (give us our money) to the amazement of onlookers. The stand-off could not be broken since neither of the parties from whom money was being demanded was ready to part with any. The caregivers left without the suspected victims. The chairman of the Lagos Mainland Local Government Community Development Committee, Alhaji Quadri Tajudeen, attributed the action of the hooligans to lack of adequate knowledge about COVID-19. According to him, the primary focus of the people living in the slum is more on what to eat than wellness.

He said: “The people in the slum are focused on what to eat’ they are not considering death. We need to step up sensitisation campaign in the grassroots, especially now that Lagos Mainland has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the state. We need to let our people know that testing positive for COVID-19 is not a death sentence.

“If the hoodlums have adequate understanding about what COVID-19 is all about and how it could be prevented, they would have allowed the NCDC to go with the three suspected cases rather than demand for money from them. If the victims too were aware that they have greater chances of surviving the pandemic, no matter the level of resistance by the area boys, they won’t listen to them.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/covid-19-area-boys-demand-settlement-before-evacuation-of-suspected-coronavirus-patients/

Lagos State and Touting are inseparable.
In 2017, Wardrobe wey I do with my money na wetin I pay 1k so the area boys can allow the driver to enter my street.

A hungry man answers only to his stomach! Who am i to condemn thier action? The government need step up thier game and stop paying lip service in the fight of this pandemic!

This is madness at it's peak. Na this agberos go make corona no leave asap. This can only be carried out that by illiterates. This country is just bleeped up. I give up.

Na wa ooo

'eee fun wa lowo wa' like sey na dem give u many keep. chaaa!!! SMH.

Jancy606:

SUBAIR MOHAMMED walked through slums in Lagos State and reported situations making nonsense of social distancing regulation, which portends a new danger for government and people of the state.

RESIDENTS of Willoughby Street, Okobaba, a thickly populated slum community located in the Ebute-Metta (East) axis of Lagos State were relieved with the sight of a siren-blaring ambulance from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which was in their community to fetch three suspected coronavirus patients for treatment.

What was seen as a respite soon turned to apprehension and commotion by the time urchins took over the scene, holding the three suspected COVID-19 patients hostage and preventing the NCDC officials from gaining access into the building housing them. They insisted money must be paid to them either by the patients or the NCDC officials before they would allow the evacuation exercise and the commencement of the required test and treatment. They chorused, “E fun wa lowo wa” (give us our money) to the amazement of onlookers. The stand-off could not be broken since neither of the parties from whom money was being demanded was ready to part with any. The caregivers left without the suspected victims. The chairman of the Lagos Mainland Local Government Community Development Committee, Alhaji Quadri Tajudeen, attributed the action of the hooligans to lack of adequate knowledge about COVID-19. According to him, the primary focus of the people living in the slum is more on what to eat than wellness.

He said: “The people in the slum are focused on what to eat’ they are not considering death. We need to step up sensitisation campaign in the grassroots, especially now that Lagos Mainland has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the state. We need to let our people know that testing positive for COVID-19 is not a death sentence.
“If the hoodlums have adequate understanding about what COVID-19 is all about and how it could be prevented, they would have allowed the NCDC to go with the three suspected cases rather than demand for money from them. If the victims too were aware that they have greater chances of surviving the pandemic, no matter the level of resistance by the area boys, they won’t listen to them.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/covid-19-area-boys-demand-settlement-before-evacuation-of-suspected-coronavirus-patients/

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Boys are not smiling

In Nigeria we have lost the sense of humanity... All we do here is measured by the amount of money you are willing to give.

NCDC needs to work with Amotekun to help in this kind of things...

Only a vaccine is urgently needed to quench this disease, cos every country will always live on edge, and fear of outbreak. Even if they don't have any case, until the whole world is free.
Humans are social beings, we are not used to an isolated life. That's why even in the most developed places there are still new cases coming up.
Sad truth is that life will continue like this for everyone till a potent vaccine is produced. Especially for us, where many are uneducated, and where a lot of ignorant men believe the virus is politics or scam.

Wahala

These ones are bastards o. They wanna spread the disease in a slum that has no access to medical facilities.

are they asking the NCDC to pay them before they can take death away from them?

Double wahala for dead body

Senseless illiterate area boys. They want to do good road for your community, you guys will be asking for settlement, they want to put street light, you guys will still ask for settlement. They want to fix neat water for your community, you guys will still ask for settlement. Even light wey dey give joy sef. Settlement.

Now una dey ask for settlement for even Corona matter.


Typical Nigeria poor illiterate, always thinking of today, not that they want the money to eat, they just want to smoke and drink kin kin with it.

It is an embarrassment to share the Same country with certain types of people

naija na wa o



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Ignorance is worst than any other thing,

High Spirit of Death pursuing the Area Boys..

I don't blame them a bit.
Since the government has failed everyone, use what you have to get what you want.
Let the virus spread...
Many of this guys will still sell their vote come 2023...
We never see anything.

Election thugs have come home to roost.
These thugs are unskilled, entitled, and uneducated.
They make a mockery of the social distancing and lockdown rules in place.

What to smoke and not what to eat is the real problem of area boys. People hook on drugs are most irrational people in the whole world.

Make the COVID reach them small nah.

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