The Federal Government has vowed
to deal with companies that fail to observe all public holidays according to
the provision of the law of the country.
Disclosing this in a statement in
Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. (rtd) Abdulrahman Bello
Dambazau, stated that the laws establishing public holidays were contained in
the Public Holidays Act of 1979, which states that, “The days mentioned in the
Schedule to this Act shall be kept as public holidays throughout Nigeria.”
The minister called on all
Nigerians irrespective of their Organisations, Institutions or affiliations to
ensure they obey and observe all holidays declared by Government, adding that
according to the Act, “no person shall be compellable to do any act on a day
appointed by or under the provisions of this Act to be kept as a public holiday
which he would not be compellable to do on a Sunday”.
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