Dr. Daniel Olukoya, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, has urged Nigerians to take COVID-19 seriously and also obey safety protocols put in place by government.
Olukoya, who noted many Nigerians still did not believe that the virus was real, declared that as a microbiologist, he was sure it existed and should not be joked with.
He gave the advice on Monday after inaugurating remodeled foyer of the University of Lagos Senate Building, which he sponsored.
He advised the government to mount an awareness campaign to persuade Nigerians that the virus is real.
“The first thing is to convince the populace that it is real because some people don’t believe it exists. But I am a man of God and I have prayed for so many people with the same infirmity and I know that it exists. So, we should not joke with it. People should obey all the rules. And most importantly, we should pray that this pandemic will go away,” he said.
Olukoya has a first-class degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos, and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom
