Curfew: PoliceNG IG Ignores MBuhari’s Directive, Bars Journalists, Doctors, Others | Sahara Reporters The IG gave the directive to the zonal assistant-inspectors general of police and state commissioners of police during a virtual... Covid_19 READ MORE:
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, contrary to a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered police commands not to exempt anybody, including workers on essential duties, when enforcing the ban on interstate movements and the nationwide curfew. The President had, in his first COVID-19 address to the nation on March 29, ordered a lockdown in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun states.
On April 27, when he ordered a ban on interstate movements and imposed an 8pm to 6am curfew on the nation, the President repeated that workers on essential duties were exempted. “The directive we have received from the IG is that as from 8pm, the question of being on essential services does not arise.”The Force spokesman, Frank Mba, in a statement on Tuesday, confirmed that the IG at the virtual conference with top police officers ordered strict enforcement of the curfew and interstate movement restriction nationwide.
The Executive Secretary of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, Feyi Smith, in an interview with Punch newspapers, noted that the IG’s directive could not override the President’s directive exempting the essential workers.He said, “I want to believe that given the directive of the President that all essential services are exempted, there is no way the IG’s order can override that of the President.
Faduyile, in an interview with The PUNCH, noted that President Muhammadu Buhari is the Commander-in-Chief, adding that his directive should supersede that of the IGP.
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