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COVID-19: You're not in charge, Intersociety tells Ihekweazu

A rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law has accused the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu of not being in charge of the establishment.

It said the DG's failure to take full charge of his responsibility had given room for guesswork on COVID-19 reports, especially in the Northern parts of the country.
In a letter to Ihekweazu made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State on Sunday, Intersociety alleged that certain governors had demonstrated overbearing influence on the DG.

The letter read in part, Intersociety is writing your Centre again to express deep concerns over the Centre’s failure to take full charge of its duties, functions and responsibilities as ‘Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control.

" This failure encourages censored and mutilated opinions and guesswork reports on harvest of infections and deaths ravaging Northern Nigeria.

"The Governors and governments of the affected states have also been lying about the true situations in their respective states; thereby putting more citizens at the risk of losing their safety and precious lives.

"Your Centre’s failure in this regard has made it to conspiratorially and vicariously cause thousands of infections and multiple hundreds of deaths in the country particularly in Northwest and Northeast regions.

"These mass infections and deaths occurred on account of negative mass effects of such ‘contaminated’ opinions and reports on the citizenry. It has become so alarming that everybody in the country including media practitioners is now a ‘medical expert’ including epidemiologist or virologists."

It added, "Your Centre is hereby called upon to sit up and take full charge. These sudden and mishandled mass deaths would have been prevented or reduced to the barest minimum had your centre risen to its statutory duties, functions and responsibilities in Godly time.

"Rather, the center despicably created negative opportunities and lacunae cashed in by ‘prophets and prophetesses of doom’ and ‘the brainwashed citizens’ to lead the deceased to their early graves and creation of fresh grounds for more citizens to head to their early graves.

"It is therefore our firm demand that all the infections and deaths in the above mentioned Northern States and similar ones in the rest of the country must be forensically detected and investigated and their findings made public.

The group maintained that the citizens and the international watchers would want to be expertly told what caused those infections and deaths in specific terms..