{"id":20,"date":"2021-01-17T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wscij.org\/free-to-share\/?p=20"},"modified":"2021-01-22T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:32:27","slug":"covid-19-transporters-commuters-keep-violating-protocols-as-government-goes-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wscij.org\/free-to-share\/covid-19-transporters-commuters-keep-violating-protocols-as-government-goes-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Transporters, Commuters Keep Violating Protocols As Government Goes To Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAGOS <\/strong> \u2013 It will amount to a child\u2019s play if laws are made and not followed to the letter; the government and its agencies should ensure they are fully complied with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commuters, many without facemasks, queue to buy government regulated BRT Bus ticket at Ojodu Beger in Lagos on Monday, December 28, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Relating this to rules and protocols to checkmate the raging Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), it appears that the governments and regulatory bodies have gone into slumber in enforcing the COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mixed crowd of passengers and traders who disobey social distancing at Ijoko Park in Sango, Ogun State on Thursday, December 24, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rider and his passengers ride without wearing facemasks at Ogba, Lagos on Friday, December 18, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rider and his passengers ride without wearing facemasks at Abule-Oki, Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos on Sunday December, 13, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rider without facemask carries passenger at Joju area of Sango, Ogun State on Thursday, December 24, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Riders and passengers without facemasks ride at Joju area of Sango, Ogun State on Thursday, December 24, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rider and passengers without facemasks ride at Joju area of Sango, Ogun State on Thursday, December 24, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An overcrowded bus drives along Old Abeiokuta Road, Agege, Lagos on Thursday, December 24, 2020. PHOTO: KNULE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agidingbi, \u2014\u2014\u2014, An overcrowded bus drives along Agidingbi, Lagos on Friday on Thursday, December 11, 2020. PHOTO: KNULE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Passengers cluster on top truck carrying cows Along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, Iyan-Ipaja, Lagos on Tuesday December 8, 2020. PHOTO: KUNLE AJAYI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite the warnings from the experts that the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic will be more deadly, the masses are behaving as if all is well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was gathered that at the moment, all the regulations and protocols relating to the pandemic are no longer obeyed. Social distancing and the use of facemask have been jettisoned majorly among the transporters and the commuters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observers have hammered it repeatedly that the importance of our means of transportation to the spread of COVID-19 should not be underestimated. And, for the country not to be plunged into another surge of the pandemic, regulators need to awake from their sleep and tackle the flagrant disobedient, trivial attitudes to COVID-19 rules. The use of facemasks and maintaining social distancing at the parks, in commuter\u2019s buses, and bus stops should be made compulsory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is funny to know that some people keep facemask in their pockets, some wear it on their jaws while in public places. Those were practices Saturday INDEPENDENT observed among the masses in Lagos State metropolis and its Ogun State\u2019s neighbouring towns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A food vendor, Madam Folasade in Ishaga area of Lagos, who refused to be photographed while alighting from a tricycle, said it was an act of punishment to be forcing people to wear masks. \u2018\u2019Why are you comparing us with the big men who always jet out of the country? It is their own cup of tea. We don\u2019t have any virus, they should allow us to breathe fresh air and stop punishing with their imposed mask,\u2019\u2019 the woman said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To avoid another lockdown, which may spell socio-economic woe, government at the various levels and its regulators need to act and tame the inglorious trends by creating more awareness on the pandemic and enforce the laws where necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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