Aside from several physical meetings, the last time I wrote the presidency was at the peak of recurrent banditry by the black sheep among the herdsmen. Now, I’m obliged and divinely mandated to seek the presidency’s attention in considering strict enforcement and severe penalty for COVID-19 rules violators in reopening of our economy.
I’m not unaware of the president’s resolution to protect human lives at this fragile time. So far, you have given us hope that Nigerians are safer under your government. You respect human lives and toe the path of the progressives. Amazingly, Nigeria is one of the best countries controllably managing the virus.
Unarguably, we have respected the accompanying challenges to COVID-19. It has locked today, should the virus be at advantage to tingle tomorrow? Just like most developed countries, we should endeavour to manage it and expose our economy to survival, for today and tomorrow.
Continuous locking of our economy is a hazard, not only for today but also the future.
The economy must be rejigged through conditional enforcement and impregnable policies. President Muhammed Buhari has to give imprimatur enforcement with a strict penalty on violators. The rules of wearing a mask should be mandated without exclusion.
I suggest billboards across the nation mandating and cautioning residents on the use of facemask. This will further give no one an excuse of ignorance. I’m ready to complement this move in my own little capacity as a paramount ruler.
Our vulnerable women could improvise a specially designed dress to protect their faces. Many of them are not used to facemask while others consider it a task. They prefer such protection as an accessory to form part of their dress. Improvising through the development of an inbuilt protective face coverage with female dressing is needed to curtail their tendencies.
Covid-19 is a leveller. It jumps all barriers; knows no age, status and influence. The laws should be enforced to know nobody too. If the government can manage the trend like this, we can do better when the economy is reopened by respecting the moral engagements of the virus.
The new normal should be wearing a facemask, regular hand washing and keeping social distance. The violators should be severely punished with deserving constitutional dictates. The constitutional pronouncement should be intelligible by every patriot.
Your excellency, instituting War Against Covid-19Â (WAC) or related cognomen is much needed. The fear of death must not permeate hunger. Hunger leads to depression. Depression leads to suicide. All these abnormalities are offspring of a recessed economy. An unfriendly economy is the enemy of the government.
Once again, I charge the government to see this epistle beyond the ordinary while I equally commend President Muhammed Buhari for his steadfastness in installing a new order/normal devoid of corruption into Nigerian democracy.
Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi,
Oluwo of Iwoland.
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