We are captives of our own identities, living in the prisons of our own creation, whining and dinning in solitary confinement with what looks like a bleak future .
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to battle the dreaded Coronavirus , Goal Poacher News crew examines the hardship Oyo State residents are battling with at the moment .
The COVID-19 has had far reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease and efforts to curtail it. Concerns have shifted from supply-side manufacturing issues to decreased business in the services sector.
Checks around Ibadan metropolis by GOAL POACHER NEWS revealed that supply shortages have become realities that Oyo state residents are contending with due to panic buying, increased usage of goods to fight the pandemic, disruption to factories and logistics around Ibadan which led to price gouging.
Some residents told our crew that there have been widespread of supply shortages of pharmaceuticals, with many areas such as Bodija, Oje, Ogunpa, Dugbe, Alesinloye and Gbagi markets recording daily increase in panic buying ahead of consequent shortages of food and other essential grocery items.
It is expected that states which are Civil Service and Public Service driven economy like Oyo, which Engr Oluseyi Makinde, is planning to make an industrial and economic hub of South Western states aside Lagos as captured in his four cardinal points titled THE ROAD MAP ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT AGENDA which include: Health, Education, Economy and Security. Fears from different quarters is that the pandemic would have the most direct negative economic impacts from the disruption caused.
Oyo residents, however, have appealed to the peoples Governor to review the partial lock down (sit at home order) of the state adding that the out break of the virus and the partial down have been adduced to pose major destabilising threats to the state economy. They noted that markets would remain volatile until a clearer image emerged on potential outcomes.
Bike men, motorists, relaxation centres and others are moving on with their normal daily routines ( Overloading and free mixing respectively) and we say we want to contain COVID 19 in a very short time and have a controlled contact tracing.
Mere looking at the social gathering at the burial service at Abuja the spaces among the people at the burial are not enough if truly were fighting corona virus though they covered they noses but the space is not enough.