COVID -19: Governor Seyi Makinde Insists On Local Solutions To Fight Coronavirus

The Governor of Oyo State , Seyi Makinde , has said the state will explore local solutions, towards the prevention and cure of COVID - 19 .Makinde stated this during a press briefing after a meeting of the State ’ s COVID - 19 Task Force on Thursday .The Governor said he was convinced that Nigeria can look at things that work locally . He said : “ We are looking at local solutions. I know that a lot of people have been calling me all sorts of names on social media but , from my experience, one thing that I know you have to do to conquer the virus is that you have to boost your immunity . We do have local solutions and , of course , we have to defer to experts ’ opinions as part of the home- grown solution to deal with COVID - 19 .
“ People may ask if we have been funding the research institutes very well . They may even ask if we are in a position to bring any
kind of solution to the world . My answer is yes . Even chewing something like bitter - kola . When the Western world is having the flu season , they have flu shots . But here , we have things like catarrh . When we are crossing over from the dry season to the rainy season , people almost always fall sick . Cold , cough,catarrh , we have ways of dealing with all of these locally .
“ So , except a solution comes from the Western or Eastern world ,
I won ’ t say that we cannot deal with it . I believe we have the
capacity . We have the intellect to look at things that work locally
and we will keep encouraging that . We have the capacity to also
validate some of the results that we are going to be getting .
“ They did clinical trials for chloroquine and some other
medications but these are things we take normally here . So, we
are not ruling out a local solution to this pandemic . ”