FCT Explains Continued Closure of Places of Worship
The Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has advanced reasons why places of worship cannot yet be reopened in the territory.
The minister said the FCT was guided by advice from medical experts and guidelines from the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, which had directed that all measures approved two weeks earlier be extended for another two weeks.
Bello explained further that all actions on the re-opening of the society were based on the advice of medical experts who are opposed to the at the moment do not support it. In the interim however, the minister noted, a team consisting of representatives of the religious organisations and their leadership, as well as the FCT has been constituted to gradually look at what the modalities and protocols of operating places of worship will be when COVID-19 lockdown of the FCT is relaxed.
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