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Security operatives take steps to enforce lockdown order

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Security operatives have taken full control of the major streets and highways to enforce the Presidential directives.

Abuja has witnessed a high level of compliance, especially at the city center, as most people stayed back home in compliance with the directives by President Muhammadu Buhari to lockdown Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory FCT, and Ogun State, which will join on Friday, 3rd April.

The three states are the most affected in Nigeria with Lagos and the FCT leading the country with 81 and 25 respectively, as at 2 pm Nigeria time on Tuesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on Monday in the 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, signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, which declared COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease.

The signing of the instrument is perhaps in response to the growing criticism that trailed measures put in place by the President to deal with the battles to tackle the spread of Corona virus pandemic

The Regulations, effective March 30, 2020, also gives legal backing to the various measures outlined in the President’s National Broadcast on March 29, 2020,

The measures include 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, the regulations granted an exemption to the financial system and money markets to allow very skeletal operations in order to keep the system.

The FCT enforcement team headed by Atta Ikharo was seen moving around the major parts of the FCT to enforce compliance.

At the Area Kuje Area Council, a team of Police officers working with the Police Community Relations Committee carried out a joint enforcement plan.

They had moved around Kuje town in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday to sensitize the community on the need to comply with the lockdown directives.

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire while speaking further on National Response Strategy for testing, isolation, and treatment, said the government is targeting about 1000 beds in Abuja.

He stated that the government is considering the use of the facilities such as the guest houses of the Department of State Security Service DSS, the Women Development Center and ThisDay Dome, located at the central business district in Abuja.
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