As the world continues to feel the damage; fear, hunger and death caused by the dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19), a video has surfaced online showing the moment a long queue of people reportedly Lagos residents in the Lekki area seen waiting to be fed by well to do private individuals.
A Twitter user with the name Babasola Kuti posted the video that is fast becoming viral with the caption,
This is the queue of people waiting to be fed in Lekki by individuals not government. Yet it is the government that has all the billions in donations and trillions in budgets.
How long can this be sustained?
Video credit: Akin Ariyo
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This is the queue of people waiting to be fed in Lekki by individuals not government. Yet it is the government that has all the billions in donations and trillions in budgets.
How long can this be sustained?
Video credit: Akin Ariyo pic.twitter.com/9LD1BEVkXA— Babasola Kuti 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 (@RealSolaKuti) April 22, 2020
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that Lagos state was the first to be hit by the novel coronavirus in Nigeria, February 26, and ever since the state government has received billions of naira in form of donations to aide in the fight against COVID-19 and also support residents with palliatives.
Well, with this video going viral, some Nigerians on social media are wondering what the government are doing to ease the hunger ravaging the Land amidst coronavirus pandemic.
WITHIN NIGERIA gathered some reactions on social media platform, Twitter, while blamed Nigerians for being the cause of their own problems, some blamed the corporate organizations and billionaires who donated to the government instead of giving to the people directly, some accused the Federal government of being bias with the claim of sharing money down North and neglecting other parts of the country, others worried over the risks of the gathering as social distancing was not observed.
See some reactions below:
https://twitter.com/Emekaezz/status/1252948081768873985
