COVID-19: Lawmaker distributes face masks, sanitisers to Akure residents 

Coronavirus

By Ojo Oluwafemi

Akure, March 26, 2020 (NAN) A lawmaker in Ondo State House of Assembly, Toluwani Borokini, on Thursday distributed large quantity of face masks, hand gloves and sanitisers to residents of Akure metropolis to curtail the spread of Coronavirus.

Borokini, representing Akure South Constituency 1, said that the exercise was necessary as a way of giving back to people of his constituency, especially in trying period like this.

He decried the attitude of most owners of pharmaceutical stores in Akure and its environs by hoarding the preventive materials from the reach of people.

According to him, they considered it as something to feast on and as a means to cash out on the masses within a short period of the outbreak of Coronavirus.

He said that the pharmaceutical business since outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria had become a money doubling scheme.

According to him, how do we explain the outrageous prices of face masks and hand gloves in the face of COVID-19 ? How justifiable is this increase?

“A pack, which sells for #700- #1000 is now being sold for #15, 000. Why do we derive joy in making gains from pains?

“Is corruption still from above or runs in the system of every Nigerian, but with different opportunities to exploit?

“Nigeria may not get the healing we so much crave for,  if we still have the myopic thought that political office holders are the root cause of our problems.

“I have taken it as a responsibility in providing my constituents with sanitisers, hand gloves, face masks and other recommended items for prevention.

“The use of the items have become imperative as one of the preventive measures in controlling the spread of the pandemic virus.

“So far, a thousand of sanitiser, face masks and hand gloves have been distributed in my constituency.

“I am willing to do more as need for them arises and request increases, for the sake of the masses and in order not to put my constituents at higher risk of the virus,” Borokini said.

One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Labake Akindeko, commended the lawmaker for the gesture.

Akindeko appealed to the citizens to make judicious use of the items to protect them against the ravaging scourge. (NAN)

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Edited by Olagoke Olatoye