By Salisu Sani-Idris
Abuja, Dec. 18, 2020 The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued COVID-19 guidelines regulating congregations, workplaces and market places to contain further spread of the virus within the territory.
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, who read the guidelines at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, said that enforcement teams would be out on the streets of the territory to ensure compliance.
Bello also stated that the FCT administration would be working very closely with the Judiciary through the Mobile Courts System under existing approved laws.
He said that recorded figures over the last three weeks in FCT had been unacceptably high and there was an urgent need to contain it as fast as possible.
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COVID-19 second wave: FCT Minister issues new guidelines to market, offices, worship centres, others
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The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, on Friday, directed the Market Management Limited and the various market associations in Abuja to work together to carry out sensitization activities.
The Minister also issued new guidelines to offices, worship centres, transportation and among others as the FCT prepares for a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bello made this known in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Anthony Ogunleye in Abuja.
The statement read: “The Abuja Market Management Limited and the various market associations should work together to carry out sensitization activities and also ensure compliance of all extant health protocols.