COVID-19: The Rich Must Learn From COVID-19 — Air Peace CEO

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace Airlines, Mr Allen Onyema, said the moral lesson to be learnt from the global pandemic is that wealth is nothing.

Onyema added that it is good to share wealth with people as, after death, the value of money is worthless. 

Onyema said this while distributing foodstuff to residents in the Makoko and Ajegunle areas of Lagos State to cushion the effect of lockdown on the people.

He said, “We, in Air Peace, decided that we must go to those communities where we have a preponderance of poor people; that is why we are coming to Makoko and Ajegunle, distributing thousands of bags of rice and thousands of cartons of noodles.

“It is our own small way of helping the government fight COVID-19 because people need to stay at home. We realised that a lot of these people practically depend on whatever they can get from day to day but then asking them to stay at home is the best way to fight this COVID-19.

“The private sector must be involved in this. If you have N2m, try and see if N1m can reach the other person; if you have N500,000, try and see if N100,000 can go to the other person. We are really in very extraordinary times; one way or the other, let us take the positives from the coronavirus. Now, people have discovered that wealth is nothing; you cannot take money to your grave; you must do everything you can to touch the lives of the other men around you.”