Nigeria’s Excessive Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Sarafa Isola, has known as on the British authorities to set up their resolution to space Nigeria on the crimson list.
In an interview with Channels Television on Monday, he believes rescinding its resolution does now no longer make the UK authorities old however ethical leaders who hold the fervour of the folks at heart.
“We are calling on the UK to thrill take a search and evaluation (its resolution) because one factor about management is the skill to reverse points in step with error,” Isola told Channels Television correspondent in London.
“It doesn’t describe you as a old particular person, it does make you a appropriate chief who has the braveness to alternate selections with more facts.”
UK authorities had over the weekend added Nigeria to the nation’s crimson list category in a negate to bask in the unfold of the fresh COVID-19 variant, Omicron.
Whereas noting that the action might perhaps per chance be efficient from Monday, the British authorities went on to cease the direction of of environment up selections on visitor visa functions in Nigeria and other international locations on its crimson list.
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For the Nigerian Excessive Commissioner to the UK, Nigeria shares the an identical search with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, who has raised concerns over measures imposed by diversified international locations in opposition to African international locations.
“The distance of Nigeria is to align with the distance of UN secretary-general who has classified the trudge back and forth ban on Nigeria and yet every other African international locations as trudge back and forth apartheid, and Nigeria aligns completely with that because what we are talking about like I stated, is now no longer endemic,” he stated.
“If the omicron variant is endemic, which come it is odd to just a few international locations, you then can bear in mind that. But as of this day, the legitimate affirmation of omicron patients in Nigeria – we ethical hold three, and in all places in the sector we hold now so many international locations that even hold 200, 300, 400 per cent over that of Nigeria, yet they don’t seem like included on the ban list.
“South Africa happens to be the first nation that will bring the honor of the sector to the existence of omicron, and we must salute their effort. Perchance it did now no longer even emanate from South Africa because we in Africa like the truth that here’s an outbreak and any topic on these variants – from the first to the 2nd to the third, and now the fourth might perhaps unexcited be shared with others on the earth.”
