Shutdown Should not be Done As If We Were Shutting Down a Barrack, Afenifere Faults Buhari Order

Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the shutdown orders he announced on Sunday.

In a statement issued on Monday by the group’s National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin decried the short notice given by the president ahead of the shutdown.

“While we agree that a lockdown is necessary at this point, it should not have been done as if we were shutting down a barrack under 24 hours” Odumakin said.

“Afenifere has taken note of the overdue presidential broadcast on Covid – 19.

“We honestly cannot fathom why it took so long for such to come as the only thing new in it was locking down FCT, Lagos and Ogun states.

“The rest  of the broadcast are about  washing hands and sneezing on elbows  and handkerchiefs which can only still be useful to the Senator removing his face mask to sneeze for the consumption of his colleagues at this point.

“It is a big shame that a rich country like Nigeria has been  badly run over the years and up till the time we issued this that it cannot afford any serious stimulus package for its citizens beyond moratorium for N-power earners.

“By the way, we do not understand where the president was asking the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to go and get students to be feeding with School Feeding Programme when all students in the country are at home.”