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The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly,
Matthew Kolawole, has called on the Federal Government to consider ending the
lockdown imposed to control COVID-19 pandemic.
The Speaker made the call on Monday in an
interactive session with journalists in Lokoja, the state capital.
The Speaker, who aligned himself with the
position of the state Governor, Yahaya Bello, on the pandemic, said, “Honestly,
I want to align myself with the position of the governor that the issue is more
political than reality, the symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, catarrh and
pneumonia, which we are all familiar with and we have our own way of treating
them.”
According to him, the state House of Assembly has
enacted legislation to help the state to tackle the virus if it spreads to the
state.
He said the house had also set up a committee
under the leadership of the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Ahmed, to liaise with the
squadron committee set up by the governor under the leadership of the Deputy
Governor, Edward Onoja to address the pandemic.
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