The @OfficialPDPNig has given the @OfficialAPCNg-led Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to declare the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team it brought in purportedly to assist in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in our country.
@OfficialPDPNig’s position is predicated on the alarming
declaration by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that he
cannot account for the whereabouts of the Chinese team, who were brought
into our country from the epicenter of the pandemic despite repeated
warnings and disapprovals by our medical experts and professional
bodies.
More so, the minister’s statement had heightened apprehensions in
the public space that the Chinese team, whose identity and activities
have been shrouded in secrecy, might have been brought in by a certain
cabal for another purpose outside the general public good.
The party described as suspicious, creepy and weird that the
minister of health, who had repeatedly assured that the Chinese were
brought to render medical services and trainings; and even went
personally to receive them at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport,
Abuja on April 8, 2020; in an elaborately publicized event, can no
longer account for the team.
The @OfficialPDPNig recalls how officials of the
@OfficialAPCNg-led administration had vehemently defended the invitation
of the Chinese team and offered them full state protocol upon arrival,
only to now turn around to disclaim the supposed experts deny
involvement with them and even forbid Nigerians from enquiring about
their whereabouts.
Our party is worried that the @OfficialAPCNg-led Federal
Government is being economical with the truth, with its officials
playing politics with the lives of our citizens and health safety of our
nation.
The @OfficialPDPNig holds that government’s inability to account
for the Chinese team amounts to direct betrayal of public trust, which
has heightened fears of conspiracies by certain unpatriotic interests in
the @OfficialAPCNg and its administration to compromise the health
architecture of our nation and expose our citizens to danger.
Nigerians can recall how the Federal Government had failed to
respond to demands by our party and other well-meaning Nigerians for the
particulars of the members of the team, their medical status, scope of
operation, detailed itinerary within our country as well as the safety
of the equipment they brought into our nation.
Our party had expressed worry over scary reports of escalation of
the scourge in certain countries reportedly after the arrival of
Chinese medical personnel in those countries and insisted that the
@OfficialAPCNg administration should be held responsible should there be
any sudden upsurge in COVID-19 infection and deaths in our country,
with the arrival of the said Chinese medical team.
We invite Nigerians to note that whereas our nation’s COVID-19
data, upon the arrival of the Chinese team in April, stood at 254
confirmed cases with 44 successfully treated by our doctors and 6
deaths, which reportedly had other underlining ailments.
Today, the data stands at no less than 5,450 cases and 171 deaths.
Our party therefore insists that the PTF on COVID-19 should
immediately come out with the truth and provide explanations on the
whereabouts of the team in the next 48 hours so as to douse the tension
in the country.
