Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The youth of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has warned the Igbo against wearing face masks imported from China or be treated by Chinese doctors.<\/p>\n
Ohanaeze Ndigbo said instead, they should wear the face masks made in Aba, Abia State.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by its President-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday, OYC alerted Igbos that any face masks imported from intending invitee Chinese doctors, \u201cwho are showing desperation to come to Nigeria amidst speculations about their sincere intentions with one million face masks is very suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n
The apex Igbo youth organisation queried acceptance of one million face masks, adding that \u201cuncertified sources had raised doubts that such personal preventive equipment may be second hand and capable of infesting Nigerians with Coronavirus, which Chinese doctors might want to exploit to ruin our economy and enslave Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n
It added that Irrespective of the claim that China has contained the spread of Coronavirus in their country, \u201cthe desperate attempt to bring in these Chinese doctors against all odds shows that there\u2019s more to it, when Aba artisans can produce 1m face masks in one week.\u201d<\/p>\n
OYC added that it \u201crecommend the made in Aba face masks to Ndigbo and Nigerians, as we can verify the source of production and guarantee the safety of the face masks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge the Federal Government to ban any face masks imported from China at this Crucial moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot experiment PPE imported from China with lives of innocent Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group called Igbo and Nigerians in general to \u201creject any item from these insincere Chinese doctors, they shouldn\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome Government officials are showing desperation over the invitation of Chinese doctors, when NMA and other sisters organisations had reportedly rejected this move.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The youth of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has warned the Igbo against wearing face masks imported from China or be treated by Chinese doctors. Ohanaeze Ndigbo said instead, they should wear the face masks made in Aba, Abia State. In a statement signed by its President-General, Mazi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[604,609],"class_list":["post-23619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-igbo","tag-ndigbo"],"yoast_head":"\n