COVID-19 IN NIGERIA: WE SAY NO TO CHINA INTERVENTION

Can the world ever trust China again? Would Nigeria romance with the prime suspect of the current global crisis (COVID-19)? How can we? In 2012 China handed over a fully funded and built headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to the African Union (AU). A great gesture of friendship and solidarity, perhaps. But not long after, it was alleged to have been bugged, leaking vital, confidential information of the Union to China in faraway Shanghai! True or false, the Union had to change its computer servers to check the alleged mischief. But issues of health are different. Misfiring means losing a life, or even lives. On a national scale, that can amount to thousands. Painful loss. Avoidable loss. The authorities must tread with caution here. Face masks, test kits, ventilators, vaccine and doctors - all from or of China. Hmmmm, caution we must exercise. Until now we have been using our indigenous doctors, and they have been doing well. WHY CHANGE THE WINNING TEAM? Please let us DISCARD this idea of Chinese intervention. WE DON'T NEED IT. Let us stay safe Stay indigenous. Stay Nigerian We shall overcome

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Gunmen attack David Mark’s convoy in Imo


Gunmen, on Thursday night, opened fire on the advance team of Senate President David Mark in the Orlu axis of Imo State.
The team was going ahead of the Senate President who was scheduled to attend the funeral ceremonies for the late businessman, Sir John Richard Anyaehie, in Nkwerre, Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state.


It could not be confirmed whether Mark was the target of the gun attack.

He was not in the convoy after opting to travel to the function by helicopter.

Security men in the convoy returned fire and repelled the hoodlums.

However, one of the vehicles in the Senate President’s advance team convoy was riddled with bullets but no life was lost.

Senator Mark confirmed the attack while speaking at the funeral.

He saw no reason for the attack, especially during the burial of an illustrious son of the area.
He described the late Anyaehie as a truthful man and good adviser, from whom he benefited as a young military Major in Port Harcourt.

He described his first encounter with the deceased as the greatest part of his life.
But the State Police Command denied any such attack.

Spokesperson for the command, Mrs. Joy Elemoko, a Superintendent of Police, said no report of any attack was lodged with the police.

“It was not true that the convoy of the advance team of the Senate President was attacked in the state as widely claimed. We knew that the Senate President flew to the state in a helicopter and so we are not aware of any attack, and if his convoy was attacked it could not have been in the state,” she said.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State condemned the attack, and described it as a bad omen ahead of the 2015 elections.

He challenged security agencies to fish out the brains behind the attack and bring them to book.
He said: “We should try at all times to be united as the action of those who attacked that convoy should not be tolerated. It was aimed at eliminating the senate president and should not be tied to Boko-Haram.

“I do not want to say that it is either this political party or not but those who are behind it must be apprehended.That is all I am saying.”
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