PLSG Fumigates Warehouses Ahead Of Arrival of FG’s Palliatives
BY CHAMBERLAIN ODEY, JOS – In anticipation of the arrival of palliative materials from the federal government this week, the chairman of the Plateau State Task Force on containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Simon Bako Lalong has ensured that three warehouses at the Jos International Breweries (JIB), have been fumigated.
It was gathered that a handful of distressed staff of the moribund and derelict JIB were mobilized to perform the fumigation exercise to get the warehouses up to approved sanitary standard, as they are to take delivery of the various items on the intervention inventory, before they are shared out as palliatives to members of the public that have been agonizing in a four-week, occasional-window lock down.
A source close to the state government confirmed that various intervention items are being expected, and their value is put at hundreds of millions of naira.
It was further gathered that it is the first set of palliatives to be despatch to the state from the federal government since the scourge of Covid-19 in Nigeria.
The source maintained however that he is not aware of when and the method that government plans to administer the package to ensure fairness and access to all.
Governor Lalong, who turns 57 years old today has however expressed a preferment that the birthday be celebrated in low key in tandem with the solemn mood imposed on the world by the all-killing Corona virus pandemic.
In a statement by Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor, Makut Simon Macham, said the Governor Lalong urges his “friends, well-wishers, and associates to channel resources to fighting Covid-19 rather than to celebrating his birthday”.
According to Macham; “the Governor appreciates the tremendous good will they have already conveyed to him”.
Meanwhile, a statewide lock down has again commenced today (Tuesday), marking the beginning of what residents have now popularly branded as ‘Season’ 4.
It is hoped that the new ‘Season’ will terminate on Thursday night, to give way to the commencement of ‘Season’ 5 on Sunday night, according to a statewide broadcast by Governor Lalong last week. However, with the poor response by most residents of Jos to the nightly national curfew that started on Monday, it is feared that people are in fatigue of day and night lock down already, and may be developing resistance attitude that may embarrassingly collapse the policy as poverty and hunger persist.
