Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that innocent Nigerian citizens are suffering courtesy of games being played by politicians with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking on Thursday during a Memorial Foundation program of the Sir Ahmadu Bello in Lokoja government house in conjunction with members of the Board of Trustees, the governor campaigned for employment opportunities to be created, instead of resorting to lockdown and keeping citizens at home.

Obinwannem news understands that out of the 26,484 confirmed COVID-19 cases across the country as at Thursday, only four patients are in Kogi State.

Governor Bello said: “Let us stop this game. Nigerians are suffering. Instead of the lockdown with its attendant negative effects on the people, why can’t we turn it into employment opportunities; providing clothes for face masks to be exported to those countries who have the disease?

“COVID-19 is not a new disease in our clime. We have our own way of treating it and that is what we should be exploiting, rather than subjecting our people to hardship, hunger and starvation through lockdown” he said.

Nwada Onyechere Ugochinyere reporting, Obinwannem News