Mixed Reactions Trail Presidential Broadcast In Kaduna

Some residents of Kaduna have expressed divergent views on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Sunday broadcast on the federal government’s response to the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
While some residents lauded the response so far, others were of the view that the government was slow in taking drastic action to protect the citizens.
The residents also said in separate interviews with newsmen, yesterday that the palliative measures outlined by President Buhari were not enough to address the plight of the less privileged.
Faisal Salisu, a student noted that the country was at a crossroads between huger and the dreaded contagious COVID-19 that threatens the existence of the human race.
Salisu applauded the response of the federal government and other efforts to prevent further spread of the virus, noting that attention must be targeted first at ensuring that Nigerians are alive and safe.
According to him, the government efforts to prevent further spread of the virus is the best, adding that issues around hunger and economic hardship would be addressed later.
“I sympathise with the government in this crucial moment because even the most advanced countries of the world were shattered by the deadly virus,” he said.
He however, said that the government ought to have ordered the closure of all motor parks and prevent inter-state movement to curb the virus from getting to states with no single case at the moment.
He added that, as long as the country’s roads were still open for people to move from one state to another, Nigerians would remain at risk of being infected.
“If the government had lockdown the country on time, the rate of transmission would have been very minimal.