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The guidelines showed that any person that contravenes provisions of the regulations risked a fine or a term of six months imprisonment or both in accordance with Section 5 of the Quarantine Act.
To make the directive work, Buhari directed the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Immigration Service, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, and other relevant local government, state and federal governments’ agencies to enforce the regulations.
He also warned that any officer that failed, neglected, or refused to enforce the provisions of the regulations would be subjected to disciplinary actions.
However, findings in some states and the FCT indicated that people rarely complied with the directive with experts asking governors to domesticate the laws, improve enlightenment and persuasion to halt rising cases of death and infections.
COVID-19 violators face imprisonment as Buhari signs regulations
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail spread of COVID-19.
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the President signed the document on Tuesday.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the President signed the document in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010.
BENIN CITY – A mobile court sitting in Benin City presided over by Chief Magistrate Bright Eraze Oniha has convicted 16 persons for disobeying the directive of the Edo State Government on compulsory use of facemasks and restriction of movement between 10pm and 5am.
The convicted persons, after pleading guilty to the offence, were sentenced to three (3) hours of community service within the premises of the Edo State High Court, Benin City.
The Chief Magistrate discharged and acquitted three other persons including Blessing Imasuen, Abu Bala and Elvis Elechi.
He said one among the three accused persons was arrested inside his hotel room, while two others, who are bouncers, were arrested within their work premises, noting that the bouncers proved beyond reasonable doubt that they were at their duty post preventing customers from gaining entrance at the time of their arrest.
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