The Director General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, while speaking at an interview revealed that despite the rise in COVID-19 confirmed cases, relaxing the lockdown in FCT, Ogun and Lagos states  wasn’t a wrong move.

Even as Nigerian people crowded banks and other public places, breaching all the precautionary directives against COVID-19, Dr. Ihekweazu noted on Tuesday saying ”On our side, we don’t think there was a mistake. We knew at some point this day had to come but we really expected Nigerians and cooperate Nigeria to take a little bit more responsibility for what happened yesterday.

There is only little government can do. We can issue lockdown, we can bring out the police but we rely on the common sense of most Nigerians, we rely on cooperate Nigeria taking responsibility. This is not being done for NCDC nor for the Federal government or the state government. It is being done do us.

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So we really are counting. Lets take yesterday as an exception. Lets see what happens today. Let us see how many cooperates will come out of their offices and organize the queues in front of their offices. Let’s see how many cooperates will organize their office spaces and actually put out their hand washings and educate their staff on the changes that they need to do for themselves. This is not being done for us. This is being done for you. So all of us have to take responsibility”.

More so, the NCDC DG while encouraging state governments that were proactive and cooperative in the fight against the pandemic, spoke concerning the rise especially in states like Sokoto noting that Nigeria is a Federal Republic and that the Federal Government and agency don’t have any enforcement powers