The Nigerian government on Monday said the fight to contain the spread of coronavirus and stay alive is now an individual responsibility, which Nigerians must take seriously.
Nigerians, the government noted, have a choice to take responsibility by obeying the measures and guidelines developed to fight the pandemic or end up in any of the treatment centres for COVID-19 patients.
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said this on Monday.
Mustapha said that Nigerians are the ones that can work assiduously to ensure that the level of transmission of the virus is reduced.
He lamented that many Nigerians have refused to take personal responsibility following the easing of the lockdown by the federal government.
He said: “If you listen to me conscientiously in the past four weeks I have spoken about personal responsibility, that it is our responsibility. We are not your front liners anymore. The choice of whether you will get to the hospital is yours.
“You, my fellow people, you are your last liners now. What you do, what you say, your actions, will determine where you will end.
“We have gotten to a stage where no amount of enforcement will cut this tool for us. It is the choices that we make that will determine what will happen. The governments of subnational will try to do their best but it is the choices of the people that will determine how effective that will be.
