Thursday 19 March 2020

Sidia Jatta Encourages Precautionary Measures Amid COVID-19, Discourages Hiding Behind God

Photo: Hon Sidiat Jatta.

By Ousman A. Marong & PA ABLIE CORR
National Assembly member for Wuli West has encouraged people to take precautionary measures amid COVID-19, advising that there should be no hiding behind God to prevent them from self-protection.
Jatta was making his contribution to the report of the National Assembly Select Committee on Health, Women, Children, Disaster, Humanitarian Relief and Refugees on their inspection visits to official international entry points, holding and isolation centers on the state of preparedness for the COVID-19 and the minister for health statement on the pandemic.
“We shouldn’t also hide behind God and say, we should not do anything to protect ourselves from the COVID-19,” said the veteran politician cum linguist.
The chairman of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS) further advised that human intelligence must never be underestimated, noting, “there is nothing we cannot overcome with our intelligence and we must believe.”

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