CORONAVIRUS: SHUT DOWN WORSHIP CENTRES- REPS TO FG

Stop Receiving Visitors for Now- Reps to Lawmakers

As a result of fears over the raging Coronavirus pandemic, the House of Representatives on Wednesday urged Federal Government to shut down worship centres. They called for the roll-out of thorough measures to forestall the spread of the pandemic into Nigeria.

This followed the adoption of a motion of national public importance on ‘Covid-19 emergency travel regulation and further protocol’, sponsored by Honourable Muktar Chawai, who stressed the need to ban all foreign flights coming into the country.

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He stressed the need for sanctions, restrictions and regulations on travel policy in and out of Nigeria, along with the shut down of worship centers. The NCDC and Federal and Lagos State agencies have made frantic efforts to contain the spread of the disease.

The lawmaker, while acknowledging the critical role played by Nigerian medical practitioners and National Orientation Agency in the area of public awareness, underscored the need for Nigeria to put necessary steps towards restricting travel into the country through land, air and sea borders, as well as initiate internal control mechanisms.

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In a bid to safeguard the National Assembly, the House also directed lawmakers to henceforth stop receiving visitors pending when the deadly disease would be curtailed. To this end, the House urged the Federal Government to sign an agreement with other countries to secure testing kits so as to manage the Coronavirus.

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In the same vein, the House urged the management of all public institutions at all levels to regularly check temperatures. The House also mandated the Minister of Health to ensure to brief the leadership of the House of Representatives weekly.