Chief Sheriff Mulade
WARRI/Nigeria: An advocate of Human Rights and Peace, Chief Sheriff Mulade has called on Nigerian Governors from the 36 states not to use the present situation facing the country because of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic not to defraud the economy of their various states.
He particularly appealed to State Governors who do not have genuine or tangible evidences of COVID-19 in their States to stop reading out fake figures of coronavirus cases from their Government Houses, and quoting guidelines from the Ministry of Health and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, without proper arrangements to cater for their citizens.
Chief Sheriff Mulade, a traditional High Chief in the Ancient Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta State, expressed displeasure with the manner in which some Governors in the Niger Delta Region had used the innocent poor and vulnerable persons to glamorize themselves in the media without actually touching the lives of the people during the critical COVID-19 lockdown period.
Chief Mulade, also used the opportunity to call on the anti-graft agencies in the country to be watchful and monitor the activities some leaders and fraudsters from defrauding unsuspecting Nigerians, who will like to seize the global health emergency as an opportunity to defraud the nation’s fragile economy.
Chief Mulade, who is the National Coordinator of an NGO, the Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, made the call while reacting to the rising figures of COVID-19 cases in parts of the country, appealing to relevant anti-graft agencies to help save the Nigerian economy from opportunistic politicians in government who may want to exploit the virus situation to embezzle public funds.
He however, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for standing tall against COVID-19 pandemic and urged Nigerians to give him maximum support towards overcoming the global health challenge devoid of religious, political and ethnic considerations. He also called on the Governors to genuinely reach out to their people with quality palliatives to cushion the effects of the hardships at this critical time.
