COVID-19: Hilda Dokubo Drags Buhari Over Lockdown
Veteran actress, Hilda Dokubo has come out to question President Buhari on his reason for easing the COVID-19 enforced lockdown in some states.
The actress spoke in light of the constantly increasing cases of coronavirus in Nigeria on a daily basis.
In an over 4 minutes video shared via her Instagram page on Friday, May 1, 2020; Dokubo expressed rage and worry over the way of the Presidential Task Force has been handling the COVID-19 surge in the country.
“Who exactly is lying to the president?” asked Dokubo. “Who? The president has announced the ease of the lockdown on the strength of a lie. We’ve been locked down for 5 weeks, prior to the lockdown, they made us a commitment of testing a thousand five testings every day,” she said.
She went to slam the Presidential Task Force Committee for the poor number of testing done so far. According to her, the number of tests carried out so far doesn’t tally with what the task force promised.
“Research findings are based on percentages, who is lying to the president? Because on the strength of a lie, he has approved the ease of movement and he has also approved the increase of the number of people to be tested to 2500, if they could not accomplish 1500 then how are they able to achieve 2500 a day?
“The nurses and doctors and all health workers are working extremely hard, breaking themselves into pieces just to save lives and a few people are sitting in the comfort of an airconditioned room reaching agreements that empower only their pockets.
She then condemned the government for its apathy to the struggles of the common Nigerian
“Sometimes when I think of what people that sit in committees come up with, I wonder what runs in their veins. Blood or water? Because they react like people who don’t feel the pain of others. You have moved responsibility from yourself and hung it on the neck of the common masses, the same people that you are supposed to be protecting.
Listen to the rest of her diatribe here:
Dokubo has been quite vocal about the surge of the virus in the country since its emergence. The actress has never shied away from addressing some of the sensitive issues as concerns the pandemic.
Do you think her fears are valid? Or is it about time the government relaxed the lockdown? Comment your thoughts below.
