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COVID - 419: A BOOMING  BUSINESS.





By Patrick Ekong

It seems a business.
They welcome it with an open arms.
Falz says "this is Nigeria...."
It is Nigeria where everything is an opportunity whether it involves life or death.
They made it an opportunity to defraud our state treasury.
 Offices documents have become burn offering sacrifice for the atonement of their pockets.

They (pharmaceutical) have join the booming business that's why hand sensitizers and facemasks now sales more than gold and crude oil.

Some state government officials ( state epidemiologist and commissioner for health)  battle hard among themselves to determine who stands at the front queue as the federal government share the lots.

Palliatives too has become a business: customized bags of rice whose contents is dirtier than the bag itself are seen as a gift items presented to a chief priest in a bit to appease the (masses) gods.

Every palliatives are accompanied by cameras with a beautiful tagline as caption on social media showing the generous nature of our stingy politicians.

Task force set up now work more than security agencies do. They share the palliatives among themselves as Jewish soldiers shared the garment of the messiah, while the masses hope for a cup of rice like a baby bird will hope for food from the mother.

From the waves of the pandemic globally, it seems this business of COVID-419 will soon be over in a short while.

In where it started, life is gradually returning to the communities of nations as most hit nations have ease their preventive measures.
I know our people will wish it continues because is a lucrative business.

Some will have good testimonies of COVID -19 while others will count their losses at the end.

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