Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur, has lamented that some citizens in the state doubt the existence of Covid-19 in the same manner Boko Haram was initially underrated.
Kadafur, who is the chairman of the State high powered response team for the prevention and control of Covid 19 pandemic, stated this at a daily Media update on the pandemic at the goverment house, Maiduguri.
“When Boko Haram started, alot people felt it was something not to be taken seriously, until when it consumed everybody. This covid-19 is another Boko Haram coming, and yet people don’t believe it’s real. I keep saying it’s real. As a response team we’ll continue telling the general public and reaching out with advocacy,” Kadafur said.
The deputy governor noted that his committee is working round the clock to establish a new Isolation Centre, as the two existing ones at Ngarannam and that of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) in the metropolis have been filled to 50% capacity.
Kadafur also lamented that despite the best the response team is doing, there are some people out there who want to discredit not only the state response team, but the whole nation.
“I want to urge all and sundry to believe that the virus is real and has no cure yet,” Kadafur added, even as he made a passionate appeal to the media and the general public to help committee.
