Following the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic and subsequent meeting between the governor of Lagos state, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and community leaders to sensitise residents, Ifako-Ijaiye Community Development Committee (CDC) has embarked on a grassroots sensitisation programme.
The chairman of Ifako-Ijaiye CDC, Pastor Samuel Olu Opajobi, in a press statement forwarded to Blueprint on Monday, directed all the Community Development Association (CDA) chairmen under the CDC to take the sensitisation message to their people to curb further spread of the pandemic.
According to the statement, this is in furtherance to the sensitisation programme earlier held by the CDC to educate residents in the council area about preventive measures to be taken against COVID-19 and Lassa Fever.
“Since Lagos state government has banned social gathering of any sort and we can no longer have monthly meetings, it is important for us to devise another means of sensitising our people as cases keep increasing every day, hence, the need to use the CDA chairmen who are closer to the residents.
“You will recall that we started out this sensitisation programme at the event centre of NRC building, Bola Ahmed Tinubu way at Iju, where all stakeholders gathered including health workers and other professionals who came to educate us on how to prevent ourselves and our environment against the pandemic.
“Of course, we are already getting positive feedbacks base on that sensitisation but we cannot rest on our oars since the cases are increasing everyday and we cannot afford to sit down and watch till we have a case here,” Opajobi said.
Blueprint recalled that at the CDC monthly meeting two weeks ago where the sensitisation began, the newly elected Lagos state Community Development Advisory Council Chairman (CDAD), Alhaji Azeez A. Amusat, who doubles as the special guest of honour, said the exercise had never been held by any chapter of the CDC in Lagos state, while commending the CDC members of Ifako- Ijaiye for the initiative.
Opajobi, in his opening remark, said “ the CDC as the fourth arm of government has called on residents, parents, guardian, artisan, market women, special people to educate their ward on both virus and fever, as well as adhering strictly to all prescribed preventive measures by the Lagos state government & the medical officer health (MOH).
