President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Covid-19
Regulations 2020 to declare Covid-19 as a
“dangerous infectious disease”.
In a statement by his media office, Buhari was said to have
signed the regulations “in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections
2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004), and all other powers
enabling him in that behalf”.
Femi Adesina, his spokesman, said the regulations, effective
March 30, 2020, “also gave legal backing to the various measures outlined in
the President’s National Broadcast on March 29, 2020, such as
Restriction/Cessation of Movement in Lagos, FCT and Ogun State and others
toward containing the spread of the pandemic in the country”.
There had been criticisms of Buhari’s decision to restrict
movement in those areas because, according to some lawyers, there was no legal
backing.
Adesina also said to ensure that Nigerians can still perform
on-line transactions and use ATMs during these restrictions, “exemption is
granted financial system and money markets to allow very skeletal operations in
order to keep the system in light operations during the pendency of these
regulations”.
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF),
had earlier said Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, human rights lawyer who raised issues
over the lockdown, goofed.
He said the quarantine act empowered the president to
restrict movement when a “dangerous disease” breaks out.
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