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

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

President Buhari today signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020 giving
him the executive powers to declare COVID-19, a dangerous infectious
disease.

The COVID-19 regulation also gives the president the legal
backing for all the measures his government has put in place to curtail
the spread of the ravaging virus particularly the lockdown of some
states.

A statement issued by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the
President on Media & Publicity, explained that this is “in exercise
of the powers conferred on the president by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the
Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004).”

The statement in part reads:

“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, President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, signed the Covid-19
Regulations, 2020, which declared Covid-19 a dangerous infectious
disease.

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.

In addition, to ensure that Nigerians can still perform on-line
transactions and use ATMs whilst observing 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.

On Sunday March 29th, the President addressed the Nation and
announced the restriction of movement in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja as part
of measures to curb the spread of the virus in Nigeria.

Legal practitioners and Senator Dino Melaye kicked against the
directive issued by the President. They argued he had no legal backing
to issue such a directive.

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