Why I haven't visited my hometown, Ilorin since my appointment – Chief of Staff, Gambari

Date: 2021-02-03

Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari has said he has not visited his hometown, Ilorin, Kwara State, since his appointment in May 2020 due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

He spoke at the commissioning of the State House Clinic Special Care Centre (COVID-19 Isolation Centre), on Tuesday.

The Chief of Staff called on Nigerians to ensure compliance with the non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 some of which include the use of face masks, hand wash and social distancing.

"It may interest you to know that since my appointment into this position in May 2020, I have not been to Ilorin, Kwara State, my hometown," Gambari said.

'However, the Chief of Staff lamented the approach of Nigerians to the non-pharmaceutical intervention, which he distributed as unfortunate.

Gambari said the people of his hometown, Ilorin believe that only rich people suffer from COVID-19.

"But as Mr President often says, COVID-19 is a respecter of nobody. Rich and poor, powerful or weak, all of us must respond to this very effectively," he said.

"For me who sees the President many times in a day, I have to take responsibility and if that involves giving up going to the town of my birth, so be it." Gambari urged citizens of Nigeria to embrace the new vaccine which is meant to protect them from the virus and do whatever it takes to keep themselves safe.

The Federal Government has said tha the COVID-19 vaccine is not meant to kill Africans as speculated by many.

Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha said this on Tuesday at the inauguration of the State House Clinic Special Care Centre (COVID-19 Isolation Centre), Abuja.

Mustapha dismissed the conspiracy theory surrounding the vaccine, stressing that no country was interested in spending money just to kill Africans.

The SGF said the FG would continue to sensitize Nigerians on the benefit of been vaccinated against the dreaded virus.

He stressed that absence of the vaccine may deny Nigerians from traveling outside the country.

Recall that Nigerians, especially some religious leaders have kicked against the vaccine, saying there were other motives behind its production.

Recall also that the former senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, had in a video urged Nigerians to steer clear of the vaccine, maintaining that the speed at which the vaccine is being produced remains suspicious.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yaru     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Budo Egba     Curfew     Charles Ibitoye     Shaaba Lafiagi     Muhammed Danjuma     HICA     Amuda Musbau     AbdulGafar Tosho     Moji Makanjuola     Kwara State Fire Service     MMWG     Democracy Day     Ibrahim Taiwo     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     TESCOM     Ishola Abdullahi     Hussein Oloyede     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Yusuf A. Usman     Igbaja     Wahab Issa     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Peter Amogbonjaye     ASMAU PLAZA     Sebastine Obasi     Adijat Adebiyi     Tafidan Kaiama     Twitter     John Obuh     Busari Alabi Alausa     Shehu Salau     Maryam Ado Bayero     Olaiya Zuberu     Congress For National Consensus     Ilorin Curfew     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Mike Omotosho     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Femi Oladiji     Admiralty Villa     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Old Oyo     KWIRS     Abdulkareem Alabi     Hamid Bobboyi     Mahee Abdulkadir     Leke Ogungbe     Eleja     Obayomi Azeez     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Mujtabah Bature     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     JMK Construction Company Limited     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Lanre Badmas     Saheed Alakoso     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Sherif Shagaya     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Zaratu Umar     Agboola Abdulraheem     Olateju Lukman     Toyin Falola     Atiku Abubakar     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Kanu Agabi     Oke Sunna     Minimum Wage     Omupo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Saka Keji     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Eleja Taiwo Banu     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Maja     Oloye     Muritala Olarewaju     Babaloja-General     Kwara Apc     Raimi Iyanda     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Ifelodun     Bursary     Gobir Organization Foundation     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     ASUU     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Illyasu Abdullahi     Kwara State Sports Commission     Yusuf Badmus     Amuda Musbau     Voices Of Tomorrow     Lola Olabayo     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Niguel Gallando Marcias     NURTW     Sulyman Tejidini     Ayegbeni     Samuel Adaramola     TIIDELab     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Aminu Adisa Logun     Danhawa     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Plat Technologies     Tafidan Kaiama     Roseline Oni Aremu     Idi-Ape     Suwa-Arabs     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Ike Ekweremadu     Owode Market     Ilorin     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Modupe Oluwole     ITEM 7     Olabode Towoju     Share-Tsaragi     Shuaib Jawondo     NITDA     CACOVID Palliatives     Ajase-Ipo     Offa Descendants Union     Magaji Are     Salami Adekunle     Yakub Ali-Agan     Assayomo     Afetu Of Alabe     Kwara Basketball Association     International Aviation College     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Aliyu Muyideen     Frootify     Taofeek Sanusi     David Adesina     Jumoke Gafar     Salman Jawondo     Nigeria Computer Society     Sunset Workers     Bello Oyedepo