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The Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, has advises government at various level to also consider protecting livelihoods other than lives alone, in the fight against coronavirus.
The professor of science who made more emphasis on life after the pandemic, said Protecting lives without protecting livelihoods of Nigerians will spell doom for the nation after the global health crisis, adding that state must consider that before locking down in other to avoid hunger virus.
The governor, said this in a release by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Christian Ita, in Calabar.
“Protecting lives without protecting livelihoods of Nigerians will spell doom for the nation after COVID-19 as hunger will be the next deadly virus.
“So, we will do all we can to curtail the pandemic from spreading to our state and protect lives too, but protection of lives without the protection of livelihoods is a complete imbalance. There must be a holy matrimony between protection of lives and protection of livelihoods.
“Some of our brothers and sisters depend on daily work. If you carry blocks for a living, the day you are stopped from going to work, there will be no money to feed the children.”
“We are preparing ourselves for the post coronavirus era when the planting season is just coming with the onset of the rains.
“We have prepared ourselves to be the biggest rice producers in the country with the Ogoja rice mill which is the most professional and the first vitaminized rice mill in Africa, and is currently undergoing a dry test and by May we should be ready to start milling.”
