THE NECESSITY FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING

               BY CHRIS GYANG

When I went round Jos and Bukuru metropolis monitoring the current lockdown, I realised that the level of compliance was generally very commendable. No doubt, majority of our citizens have done extremely well by obeying the lockdown order so far.

However, most of the same citizens did not appear to care about the social distancing requirement. You could see them hanging out on street corners and roads in numbers interacting with each other as if we were in normal times. In fact, there were children and adults happily playing football on some empty roads!

At this stage where community spread of COVID-19 is the ensuing danger, we may be heading for a really terrible situation if this state of affairs persists.

Therefore, we must seek out ways of strainously persuading and educating our citizens about the dangers inherent in continuously lumping ourselves together and socialising outside our homes. This is because this may prove to be the gap in our fight against this virus that may ultimately allow the deadly ravages of COVID-19 intrude our communities.

Plateau people have so far made awesome sacrifices to stop COVID-19 from making our state its safe haven, as it has done in most of our neighbouring states.

We should not, at this critical point in time, allow a disregard for social distancing bring all of our earlier struggles and sacrifices as a people amount to naught. My humble appeal.

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COVID-19: Chris Gyang Commend Citizens for Lockdown Compliance, Harps on Social Distancing