The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has tasked the 21 local government chairmen of Adamawa State to ensure strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols across the state.
Dr. Farhat Mohammed, the NCDC focal person in the state, made the appeal during a one-day sensitization parley with the 21 chairmen of local governments in the state organized by the state ministry of health and funded by UNICEF.
“There is heightened fear of community transmission despite the low number of COVID-19 infections in the state, it has become inherent for rigorous tests to be conducted in other to ascertain the true state of the pandemic in the state.
“NCDC is worried about the prospects of high community transmission occasioned by the relaxation of protocols by the government culminating in the reopening of schools and other government institutions.
“Given the realities that the disease has no cure, it is better for the people to be sensitized to embrace preventive measures such as the compulsory wearing of face mask, avoiding large crowd, regular washing of hands and observing social distance while in public”. He added.
Mohammed who expressed concern over the unchallenged attitude of most Nigerians especially in the rural area maintained that the disease is real and causing global havoc, decimating the lives and economy of states across the world.
He said NCDC has released N100 million as support for local and state governments across the country and appeal to the local government chairmen to encourage their people to avail themselves for tests.
Earlier in his remark, executive chairman Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Bashir Suleiman said the engagement was deliberately being closer to the people at the grassroots, hence their involvement in the fight against the pandemic is crucial.
He noted that no massive campaign to the grassroots will achieve the desired success without the involvement of the local government chairmen citing the critical role they played in the defeat of the wild poliovirus.
He, therefore,e appreciated the support being rendered by partners like UNICEF, WHO, and NCDC among others saying they have reviewed their commitment to fighting the virus to a halt.
Speaking on behalf of the 21 council chairmen, vice chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and Guyuk Local government chairman, Barrister Kassah D. Shallum pledged their support and cooperation in the fight against the pandemic.
Shallum urged the development partners to ensure that the proposed sample collection centers are well equipped with modern gadgets for the success of the exercise.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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