User talk:Awaji Isaac

COVID-19: MY BROKEN SILENCE
It is no longer an allusion that covid-19 has come to stay in Third World countries, especially our dear State, Nigeria (Vanguard Newspaper, 2020; Wazobia 94.1 fm news, 2020). New cases rising everyday posits that the disease will soon be at its zenith in the country (Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, 2020). However, my concern is on the wrong approach(s) adopted by the Rivers State Government in relation to the sub-struture and I will adopt the modernisation theory to pellucid my synthesis.

Indeed, the Rivers State Government led by His Excellency, Governor, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike CON has taken drastic measures to curtail the plight of the pandemic disease, covid-19 (often known as Coronavirus). It will interest you to note that some of these measures include closure of boarders, shutting down of educational institution, religious institution and partly, the economic institution which has posed a major threat to the survival of the proletariat or the common masses (The Punch Newspaper, 2020). It is pertinent to note that this approach (shutting down of markets) adopted by the Rivers State Government will not only create social insecurity (crime) but will also cause death, more deadlier than the covid-19 due to hunger strike.

Verisimilitude, the apparatus of the State has infringe on the human rights of some traders in Okrika and Andoni LGAs markets by subjecting them to severe torture just to stop them from trading. This is absolutely not the right approach to handle this as I will explain better using the modernisation theory.

Sociologically, the modernisation theory is a Development theory which maintains that traditional societies develop as they adopt more modern practices. In other words, Prof. Okodudu and Dr. Eze Wosu (in a personal communication on 16th September, 2019) opined that the modernisation theory is of the view that a society will develop if that society follows the footstep of the developed societies.

Certain States like the Lagos State of Nigeria provides prerequisite for man's survival while shutting down it's sub-struture (Vanguard Newspaper, 2020). This is absolutely what I am proposing for the Rivers State Government to do in the light to eliminate the pandemic disease, covid-19.

While the religious institution, education institution, and other institutions are being shut down, the Rivers State Government in tandem with the postulations of the Modernists should provide food to her citizens as hunger will kill more faster than the disease.

AWAJI ISAAC