President Buhari signs COVID-19 regulations to enforce lockdown in Lagos

President Buhari today marked the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020 giving him the official forces to proclaim COVID-19, a risky irresistible ailment.

The COVID-19 guideline additionally gives the president the legitimate support for all the measures his administration has set up to shorten the spread of the desolating infection especially the lockdown of certain states.

An announcement gave by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, clarified this is "in exercise of the forces gave on the president by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004)."

The announcement partially peruses:

"In exercise of the forces gave on him by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004), and every other force empowering him for that sake, President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, marked the Covid-19 Regulations, 2020, which announced Covid-19 a perilous irresistible malady.


The Regulations, viable March 30, 2020, additionally gave lawful sponsorship to the different estimates laid out in the President's National Broadcast on March 29, 2020, for example, Restriction/Cessation of Movement in Lagos, FCT and Ogun State and others toward containing the spread of the pandemic in the nation.

Moreover, to guarantee that Nigerians can in any case perform on-line exchanges and use ATMs while watching these limitations, exception is conceded budgetary framework and currency markets to permit exceptionally skeletal activities so as to keep the framework in light tasks during the pendency of these guidelines.

On Sunday March 29th, the President tended to the Nation and declared the limitation of development in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja as a component of measures to control the spread of the infection in Nigeria.

Legitimate specialists and Senator Dino Melaye kicked against the mandate gave by the President. They contended he had no legitimate support to issue such a mandate.