… Former Lawmaker In Nigeria React
The 47th US President, Donald Trump has ordered the exit of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) alleging that the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump, who gave the order a few hours after his inauguration on Monday, explained that WHO had failed to act independently from the inappropriate political influence of its member states.
The exit of the U.S. means will stop all financial contributions to work of the United Nations health agency.
According to the executive order signed by Trump, U.S. government personnel working with the WHO will be recalled and reassigned, and the government will look for partners to take over necessary WHO activities.
Trump said the World body required payments from the U.S. that are disproportionate to the sums provided by other larger countries, such as China.
“World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said.
Trump’s order said the administration would cease negotiations on the WHO pandemic treaty while the withdrawal is in progress.
However, WHO vigorously denied the allegation, saying it continues to press Beijing to share data to determine whether COVID emerged from human contact with infected animals or due to research into similar viruses in a domestic laboratory.
Trump had taken steps to quit the body in 2020, during his first term as president, accusing the WHO of aiding China’s efforts to mislead the world about the origins of COVID.
According to several experts, the WHO, the U.S. departure will likely put at risk programmes across the organisation.
Meanwhile, former federal lawmaker in Nigeria, Senator Shehu Sani, has claimed that ‘disruption’ in the United States has started under President Donald Trump.
The former lawmaker had earlier on Monday described Trump as a ‘disruptor‘. Sani, in a post on his X handle on Monday, said that Trump is going to be a great challenge to the world.
Sani said: “the disruption has started”.
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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