The Federal Government has been encouraged to try locally produced drugs from renowned Orthodox and unorthodox medical experts to check the effect of COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to newsmen, former President of the defunct Onitsha
Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, OMATA, High Chief Gilbert Obi, said the cure for COVID-19 can be found locally
Chief Obi said he had continued to advise times without number that Professor Maurice Iwu, a professor of Pharmacology and one time Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who claimed he has drugs that will cure COVID-19, should be tried, but that the Federal Government seems to have turned its back against the claim may be because Iwu is of Igbo extraction.
He noted that Maurice Iwu had asked the government to send COVID -19 positive patients to him if it is in doubt of the efficacy of his drugs.
The former OMATA President also observed that there is this other man from Irish hospital in Lagos, that said it also has the drugs and even challenged the Federal Government to also send COVID -19 positive patients to him for treatment.
He wondered what drugs were used to cure those that were cured of the disease and expressed dissatisfaction with the way government is handling the issue.
He predicted that economic recession might descend on the country, post COVID-19, if proactive measures are not put in place now, observing that majority of the nation’s income comes from oil, which has kept dropping in the international market.
The business mogul warned that if much was not done, it will take the country 20 years to recover, listing other challenges facing the nation such as herdsmen attack, Boko Haram, armed banditary, among others, regretting that government is not doing anything to save the situation.
Contributing, the Onitsha Zonal Chairman of National Association of Traditional Medicine Practitioners, NATMP, Dr Ferdinand Okolo, also advised the government to try Professor Iwu’s drug.
He found it funny that Federal Government welcomed that of Madagascar when their own son, Professor of pharmacology and former INEC chairman claimed he has the solution.
RPT/Chinwe/Monic.
[6/11, 00:26] Gm Radio: On Tuesday 9th June, 2020, Police operatives attached to ‘B’ Division Awka, arrested one Chukwujekwu Igiri, aged 21years, who resided at Mgbajiaka, behind Amenyi Girls’ Secondary School, Awka.
Suspect allegedly disappeared to an unknown destination with a newly purchased Hijet cargo shuttle bus, and Ofiaku bread, worth fifty thousand naira, property of one Uchenna Okeke, the Director of Ofiaku Restaurant, Awka.
A statement issued by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Haruna Mohammed, said the vehicle was recovered at Umuegara Ezzamgbo, in Ohaukwu Local Government of Ebonyi State, hometown of the suspect, where the Ofiaku brand name written all over the body of the vehicle has been removed.
According to the PPRO, the suspect was about selling the stolen bus at the rate of two hundred thousand naira, through his accomplices, who were equally arrested.
The accomplices are Michael Maduabuchi, aged 22 years of Amechi Ezzamgbo and Chukwudi Ogeh, aged 22 years of Amechi Ezzamgbo in Ebonyi State.
Consequently, the recovered vehicle have been registered as exhibit and the three suspects have been arrested and brought to Awka.
Haruna said the suspects would be charged to Court at the conclusion of investigations.
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