“Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof, and no citizen of Nigeria shall be expelled from Nigeria or refused entry thereby or exit therefrom.”
during the 2019 general election. In this interview, the former Lagos State chairman of the defunct African Renaissance Party and former chairman of Lagos League of Political Parties , says it is illegal to forcefully relocate Nigerians from one state to another under the pretext of fighting the spread of COVID-19.
The distribution of palliatives is one area that many Nigerians are not very satisfied with, just like you mentioned. Having observed the pattern of the distribution, what underlining adjustments do you think should be made going forward? In our own case in Nigeria, please recall that those who have died out of clashes with security agencies and robberies prompted by the lockdown and other related issues seemed to have surpassed that of COVID-19 casualties. If they have enough palliatives at their homes, loyalty to law and order would be high; but since the opposite is our reality, easing of lockdown is inevitable or they will do it by themselves and it was already happening.
Section 41 of the 1999 Constitution is very clear.
When I was running for the presidency during the 2019 general election, I made it clear that though statistics may not be available, many Nigerians had died when they shouldn’t; many Nigerians became impaired when they shouldn’t; many had suffered in severe ways due to medical negligence, poor-equipment of our hospitals and also hospital malpractices in Nigeria.
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