Governance and Covid-19 in Developing Countries: Observations from Nigeria
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2022-06-09
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The governments across the world were caught unprepared for the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic that claimed several lives. Millions of people struggled between life and death in both developed and developing countries. The disease was so devastating that various governments closed their borders and shut down socio-economic and political activities. People were devastated because there was no movement within and between countries. To cushion the challenges posed by the coronavirus, governments, and organisations in different countries provided palliatives ranging from financial incentives to food items, among others, for their citizens, even helping the needy countries. The paper argues that the effect of COVID-19 in Nigeria is greater than the COVID-19 pandemic itself. Nigerians defiled the directives of their governments largely because these governments’ palliatives not only yielded negative development but were only for the few selected Nigerians. Besides, the elites who were infected by COVID-19 struggled to have space within the limited bed spaces with the masses. Thus reaping from the bad governance they put in place. The paper concludes that the events of 2020, particularly the coronavirus, provided a holistic call to the governments in the country to without delay to put in place institutional mechanisms that will address the issue of good governance: energy, roads, security, particularly modern health care facilities which the government and the governed can access with tokenism for their well-being
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Ogunwa S. A. & Ogunwa F. A. (2022). Governance and Covid-19 in Developing Countries: Observations from Nigeria. Available at crawfordjournalofpgstudies.org