By Raymond Gukas, Jos
Plateau Our Heritage, (POH), has observed with dismay, the way and manner individuals and groups have made a joke on efforts at containing the Coronavirus disease spread with false assumptions leading to panic across the state.
The POH, a socio cultural group, said in a press statement by its Secretary, Friday Bako that the challenges being faced by citizens and coupled with misinformation was not doing the state any good.
Although they appealed to the state’s COVID-19 commitee “to be more forthcoming with adequate information” as number of carriers increases by the day, the POH pleads that all hands must be on deck to support the authorities in this fight.
According to the statement, “its a great disservice when people wake up and begin to offer unsolicited figures and allocating same to some imaginary locations; alluding to outbreaks thereby throwing the state in panic and unnecessary anxiety.”
As a suggestion, the POH tasked the committee to be proactive by supplying accurate information “regarding index cases by mentioning their local government areas, districts and wards for possible precaution to avoid community transmission.”
They used the occasion to caution the government on issues of palliatives, which the POH observed has cast a dent on the integrity of government; going by the public outcry that has greeted the disbursement exercise at the initial stage.
The body then appealed to the government to as a measure of necessity, ensure it capture the vulnerable the palliative is yet to reach especially that the majority of indigent Plateau people are left unattended to especially at this crucial period of the lockdown.
POH charged the citizens to adhere strictly to preventive measures advised by Health experts and government directives aimed at preventing and containing the spread of the dreaded virus.
