State governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum have said that the reason some states failed to distribute the COVID-19 palliatives to the people was because they were keeping it for the second wave of the pandemic.
The NGF’s spokesperson, Abdul Razaq Bello-Barkindo, on behalf of the governors said it is both wrong and ‘mischievious’ to say the palliatives were hoarded.
The governors said some of the states that still had palliatives in their warehouses were keeping them as a strategic plan to cater to “a projected second wave of COVID-19”.
Some Nigerians upon the recent discovery of undistributed relief materials have taken to carting them away, berating the governors for stealing items meant for the public.
