Nigeria our dear country will remain as inept and stranded in times of crises as it currently is, as long as leadership problems remain.

NMA, Resident Doctors( ARDs), Teaching Hospitals, JOHETSU, etc, have gone on strikes upon strikes due to poor health and welfare package in the past but successive governments have been treating their agitations with kid gloves. 99% of our leaders, including our president do not use our local health facilities. With ordinary ear problem, they run to the UK and USA like someone in a relay race, to receive treatments, using the taxpayers monies . Health is wealth has been an age-long adage, but many have not sat down to really think deeply to understand this saying. When the aforementioned were shouting and shutting down hospitals in protest for improved conditions, our politicians turned deaf ears to them, meeting less than 5% of their needs and asking them to get back to work. Mamy have even been threatened with sack and litigation, should they turn down their instructions severally.

In Nigeria today, no facility can be proud of a state of the art or a manageable isolation centre in the country. Barely 2 weeks ago, the yaba isolation centre which could barely accommodate 50 patients were being renovated as shown on channels tv. Lagos alone has over 19m people living there not to talk of other major cities like kano, ibadan, enugu, owerri, abuja, etc. Earlier in the week, a lady took swipe on the federal government after her aged mother who recently returned from one of the Corona virus affected countries died inside a make-shift isolation centre due to the poor condition of the place at UNTH. I feel ashamed of my country for the first time due to the way our government treats human lives...those who are supposed to be our servants. They dictate to us what to do instead of listening to us and take instructions.

In my state of Ekiti, an American young man, who came to Nigeria with his caregiver died in one of the hospitals. He was said to have died of Coronavirus infection. He got infected from USA before coming to Nigeria. Our health institutions are in a state of moribund. If some of our politicians were infected with Coronavirus today, where would they run to...UK, Italy or USA? Many of them have one ailment or the other...some terminal but manageable ailments plaguing them. Many of us might not know because they hide them under their agbadas and babarigas. Many are on routine check ups overseas. Now that they are afraid to travel because of fear of contacting Coronavirus, I wonder how they'd be managing their terminal diseases because there's nothing to take cate of them back home..health is wealth!!!

Many have their children hidden in their mansions built with tax payers monies abroad but they can't ask them to come home, which is now considered to be safer, for the same fear of contacting the disease in transit. Many airports aren't in operation. They have one belief that once there's crisis, they could rush abroad with their family, leaving the poor masses behind but now, they can't dare move an inch...health is wealth!!!

Many have billions stashed in homes, underground, banks and offices but they can't book a flight ticket for medical check ups abroad. Their money has become so useless. They think money can provide everything they need. They've succeeded in destroying our health institutions, leaving the masses who would queue inside the rain and under the hot sun to vote them in office to their fate. Could this be nemesis catching up with them? I see many of them being flown abroad in air ambulances in coming days as their health condition deteriorates because there's no such facility to take care of their health locally. They've destroyed everything ...health is wealth.

So far, the larger percentage of the recorded cases are mainly the average and rich individuals and NOT the poor masses whom they've left to their fate....health is wealth!!!. Many are crying in silence as most airports have been closed in the west and travel bans have been placed on countries from coming to them, just to curtail spread , I hope they'd also blame themselves for destroying our health institutions for their selfish gains and greed. A few years back, aisha buhari and daughter went for treatments at the State House Medical Centre where 32 billion naira was allocated, a hospital situated on less than 2 acres of land gulping so much yet, with nothing to show for it. No functional x-ray and aisha had to cry out. Her daughter was asked to buy a syringe or so, before she could be attended to and the case had been buried.

The national assembly have suddenly announced a break and closure of the chambers to avoid being infected. This would be a lesson to them hoping they'd do the needful. Had our health institutions been in good states, all these runnings from pillars from posts and fire bridge approaches wouldn't have been necessary. The minister of health and president keep asking us to be calm without providing the necessary or adequate facilities for isolation and testing ...how? I do pray and hope the spread wouldn't continue as we are a densely populated nation.

Nigeria is like a country going for war without preparing for same. We are at the mercy of the almighty.