How exactly is the lockdown helping to halt the spread of
coronavirus in Nigeria? Or put another way, how is the Buhari regime which
announced the lockdown in three locations, Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), ensuring that the measure unleashed is at least achieving a
reasonable percentage of the purpose for which it was declared?
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Has there been any thorough audit of the exercise? Who is
also undertaking such an assessment in the various states that are equally on
lockdown? What is the level of compliance at the various places and what
percentage of the anticipated gains has so far been achieved?
One may never get a coherent answer. That is the problem a people must learn to
live with when they are stuck with a regime that appears to derive some kind of
strange animation from maintaining an icy distance from the people it claims to
be governing, a leadership that seems to have become incurably estranged from the
people, their problems and feelings, and appears to be trapped in abject lack of
the capacity to muster any empathy and fellow-feeling either when speaking to the
populace or taking actions that are sure to harshly affect their lives.
