Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has noted that Coronavirus is now a full scale business globally and the world is only exploit Africa, Nigeria in particular with the disease.
Ben Ayade stated this in on Channels TV today Thursday, arguing that the testing done in Nigeria lack reproducibility and reliability.
He disclosed that hisChinese friend who is residing in Switzerland recently told him that he has made so much money importing reagents out of the Philippines.
He alleged that there is a businessman somewhere in the Western world fanning the illness.
”Out there in the Western world, there is a businessman fanning all of this, making sure they sell reagents. Indeed, my friend out of Switzerland, a Chinese, says he has made so much money importing reagents out of Philipines and shipping to the world. So it has turned into a full-scale business. Why will I be testing somebody who has not come in contact with somebody who has caught the virus? I will only test you when I have reasons to, when I have seen symptom.““If NCDC continues to lower the criteria just to get more people tested, I begin to wonder because we have to exhaust the entire accounts of this country to be able to support the testing regime. I think I cannot follow blindly. I must lead from the front because I am exposed, I am smart and I know what I need. I can tell you this testing for Coronavirus has gone Ecopolitical. In the US for example, it is about the November elections and for some businessmen, it is about more reagents, more money. But for me, it is science, it is reality and becaue a wrong mentality will give you a wrong reality, I will hold the right mentality. Only contact tracing can help you identify those to be tested. I am a scientist please”, he said. Read also:Â We’ll Only Admit Severe Cases Of Coronavirus At Isolation Centre – Lagos State Govt
When asked if in Nigeria we are being exploited via the pandemic, he replied, “Of course no doubt about that. No doubt about that at all. You don’t have to be a scientist to see the loopholes and business elements. Why can’t Nigeria produce her test kits? Why can’t we have our own vaccination plants to produce our vaccines? Nigerians are endowned. Very intelligent people by nature.“
“If NCDC continues to lower the criteria just to get more people tested, I begin to wonder because we have to exhaust the entire accounts of this country to be able to support the testing regime. I think I cannot follow blindly. I must lead from the front because I am exposed, I am smart and I know what I need. I can tell you this testing for Coronavirus has gone Ecopolitical. In the US for example, it is about the November elections and for some businessmen, it is about more reagents, more money. But for me, it is science, it is reality and becaue a wrong mentality will give you a wrong reality, I will hold the right mentality. Only contact tracing can help you identify those to be tested. I am a scientist please”, he said.
