COVID-19: Ekweremadu Tasks FG On Economy’s Recovery Plan

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has tasked the Federal Government on the need for it to evolve a realistic agenda towards tackling the long term effect of Coronavirus pandemic on the nation’s economy.
Ekweremadu, who made the appeal at the weekend while distributing palliatives to cushion the effect of COVID-19 to his constituents in Enugu West senatorial district, emphasised the need for Nigeria to marshal out realistic plans to deal with the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy.
He backed up his submission with the fact that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Nigeria suffer its worst recession in 30 years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ekweremadu, who was represented on the occasion by his political associate and Secretary of the Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Cletus Akalusi, however, disclosed that “as a member of the seven-man International Parliamentary Taskforce on COVID-19, I have been holding useful virtual meetings with my colleagues around the world with the aim of mitigating the effects of the pandemic on vulnerable citizens in developing nations, and countries with low capacity to deal with the pandemic and its effects”.
The global Task Force, he added, will continue to share perspectives with a view to mobilising ideas and global resources to deal with the pandemic among the nations in the world.
The Chairman of the Senate committee on Environment equally appreciated Nigerian health workers, whom he said were at the frontline of the battle against the novel coronavirus and called on African, particularly Nigerian scientists, to join the race for the cure and vaccine for COVID-19.