The chairman of the presidential taskforce on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, on Thursday ripped into the attitude of Nigerians, placing the blame for the country’s failure to have halted the spread of the pandemic on them.
In an impassioned speech during the briefing of the PTF, Mustapha who is also the secretary to the govt of the federation said everything was put in place to stop the pandemic from spreading as much as it has in the country.
The only thing missing was the right attitude.
“Our biggest challenge has been the attitude of Nigerians,” he said reflecting on the fact that confirmed cases in the country have exceeded 50,000 with the death toll just 15 cases shy of 1000.
A visibly upset Mustapha suggested that rather than follow guidelines, Nigerians thought only about their rights, failing to realise that the rights came with “correspondent responsibilities.”
“We would have flattened the curve, we would have dampened this rampaging virus by now if we had just complied with the simple instructions,” he lamented.
