COVID-19: Reps probe police, NSCDC over lockdown breaches

An officer of Ogun State Road Safety Command tries to block the expressway to prevent motorists from driving into Lagos, at the Ojodu-Berger border between Lagos and Ogun States, on March 31, 2020, fo

llowing the lockdown by the authorities to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. - Lagos was deserted on March 31, 2020, after Nigeria locked down its economic hub and shuttered its capital Abuja, in the continent's latest effort to brake the juggernaut of COVID-19 coronavirus. Businesses were closed, markets abandoned and streets empty as the usually chaotic megacity of 20 million, along with the capital Abuja, shuddered to a halt on the first full day of a two-week shutdown.

At the plenary on Thursday, the House considered and adopted a motion moved by the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu; former Minority Leader, Leo Ogor; and Messrs Victor Nwokolo, Nicholas Mutu, Nicholas Ossai, Julius Pondi, Ben Igbakpa, Efe Afe, Thomas Ereyitomi, and Francis Waive. Moving the motion, Elumelu said, “The House notes that after due consultations with state governors, the Federal Government on the 27th of April, 2020, announced, among several regulations, the need to ban non-essential inter-state passenger travels until further notice and overnight curfew, from 8 pm to 6 am, exempting movement for essential services and controlled inter-state movement of goods and services from producers to customers.

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