Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, met behind closed doors with the President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

At the end of the meeting, the governor told State House correspondents how his government is coping with the second wave of the virus in the state and how it is trying to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed during the #EndSARS protests.

The governor said, “On COVID-19, it is actually a very serious case. We have all said it, we are in the second wave and incidentally, the second wave seems to be a bit more infectious than the first one, I mean the rate of infection and the number of people that we have seen. We still remain the epicentre, so what we have done is, we never stopped building capacity.

“One of the things that we are doing now is communication and we are taking it to the grassroots to let people know that they need to take full responsibility and know that even for their loved ones, they need to be real with themselves and know that COVID-19 is real, it is with us and it is not just something playing in their heads.

“We have seen, unfortunately, the fatality rate around the country, even in Lagos. One of the things we have realised is that a lot more people require oxygen attention, they need additional breathing aid, so we have started building what we call oxygen tents.

“We are building about 10 of such facilities, we have commissioned about four or five of them and we are also building proper oxygen plants, additional to oxygen plants in the state so that we can meet the respiratory requirements.”

Sanwo-Olu said the reconstruction of some property destroyed last year had began.

He further said that affected small businesses are also being assisted to get back on track with the help of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.