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COVID-19 Palliatives: We are yet to feel impact in South-East ­― Ohanaeze tells Buhari

by Tribune Online
April 28, 2020
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Delta monarch urges Buhari Buhari commissions made-in-Nigeria vessel, Buhari hails pilot, FG begins implementation, Army lacks power to investigate crime – Court …Awards N15m damages against Army, Police Sunday Ejike – Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday held that the Nigerian Army has no power to arrest, detain and investigate crimes. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, while delivering judgment in a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by Miss Grace Anita Paul against the Chief of Army Staff, the Nigeria Army, Inspector General of Police and the Nigerian Police Force held that the Nigerian Army would be usurping the fun by delving into arrest, investigation and arrest over crime allegation. Miss Paul had, in her suit alleged that officers of the Nigerian Army invaded her residence and abducted her to Mambilla Barracks in Abuja on October 24th 2019 where she was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. She said she was kept in a guardroom with other male inmates and later transferred to the SARS where she was kept for more than two months without charge or trial. Justice Taiwo, in his judgment held that the Nigerian Army lacks the power to arrest, investigate and hold in custody anyone who is not subject to the Armed Forces Act or any other military law. While dismissing the objections of counsel to the Nigerian Army, A.A. Mohammed (SAN), the Judge held that the Military should not usurp the powers of the Nigerian Police under Sections 4 and 84 of the Police Act which empowers the Police to detect and investigate crime. Counsel to the applicant, Akpomiemie Akpomiemie had argued that the Military lacks the power under Section 217 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to arrest, detain and investigate anyone not subject to Military law. Akpomiemie also argued that the detention of the Applicant by the defunct SARS of the Nigeria Police is illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional. Justice Taiwo held that for democracy to thrive, all agencies of government should act within the law and awarded damages of N5 million against the 1st and 2nd Respondents (The chief of Army Staff and the Nigerian Army) and N10 million against the Inspector General of Police and the Nigerian Police Force sued as 3rd and 4th Respondent respectfully. The Judge also made an order of perpetual Injunction restraining the Nigeria Army and the Nigeria Police from further violation of the rights of the applicant. The court also ordered the Police to return all her seized items within seven days., Buhari pledges support for Lagos, Buhari flags off Kano-Maradi non-career ambassador-designates, Buhari hails China-Nigeria relations, Buhari to perform groundbreaking, African Union may be irrelevant, Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline, graduates for extension service, Buhari okays Fikpo’s nomination, Appraising Buhari hails Niger Republic, Buhari cancels Christmas homage, Buhari pledges Nigeria’s support, Security challenges facing Nigeria

President Mohammadu Buhari broadcast on Monday, on the cumulative lockdown order in the country, particularly in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja in the ongoing war against the coronavirus came with a sigh of relief from most residents of the affected states including Anambra who had been forced to remain indoors for about one month following measures to curb the spread of the disease.

Tribune Online has early reported that the President, during his address, said the proportion of cases imported from other countries has reduced to only 19% of new cases, showing that the country border closures yielded positive results.

In Anambra state, despite the reopening of movement of people, places of worship, restaurants, food and drug markets, but in strict observation of government and World Health Organization’s directives on preventing the spread of the disease,  residents are still lamenting on the absence of the Federal government palliatives presence in the state.

Reacting to the development, the Anambra state chairman, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Demain Okeke-Ogene, while urging the President to urgently save the harsh situation the people are passing through, as a result of the Novel pandemic, disclosed that the people of the South East region (Igbo’s), are yet to feel the impact of the  Federal government palliatives set aside for the vulnerable in the country to cushion the lockdown effect.

On the distribution of rice by FG, the Ohanaeze chairman, called on the south-east governors to emulate their south-west counterpart by involving the services of National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) to certify the product before distributing it to her citizens, to avoid other outbreak in the region, whenever they are called for.

He also appealed to the Federal government palliatives committee, to use the office, irrespective of tribe, religion and politics to give out the palliatives evenly.

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While commending the president, on his commitment to the welfare of Nigerians, Okeke, assure that the Igbos will continue to play safely in accordance with the government directive to end the COVID-19 spread.

He urged the 36 states governors to continue to enforce land border closure, as part of the containment strategy.

The government has played a responsive part with the recent Buhari broadcast, adding that the responsibility of safety now lies with the people, he added.

The Chief Medical Director, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojuckwu University Teaching Hospital, Dr Basil Nwankwo, said the signing of Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of hazard allowance to health workers and the training of ten thousand health workers across the country, has shown that Nigerian government at all level are committed to fighting the global disease, noted that at COOUTH, medical workers were already trained by the management to contain the virus.

Also speaking to Tribune Online, on the FG palliatives, the state chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Jerry Nnobia, said no workers in the state have received anything from the federal government, urging the president to extend the gesture to workers in the entire south-east region.


Dr Ucheche Raymond Ekpe, an eye specialist based in Awka, on his part, said the president broadcast, does not make sense to him because those commission to see to the COVID-19 affairs of health workers are only doing that on pen and paper.

He pleaded with the President to carry every Nigeria along on palliatives and not a particular section, for the interest of oneness, as sorted by Nigeria founding fathers, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Mr Nwachukwu Oguikpu, who had his hand-sewn face mask on, boarded a clustered public transport to Onitsha but noted that the misconceptions that people attach to the disease largely determine their choices to either observe the health safety guidelines or not.

A hotel staff manager in Awka, Mr Patrick Mbaleke, said that even though a lot was expected of the government to ameliorate the effects of the lockdown, it was important that people understood the need to protect themselves by adhering to the best preventive directives.

For Mr Emeka Okafor, the government should do more to ensure that the people, especially the poor, who are caught on the wrong side of the current circumstance, receive more interventions.

The state commissioner for information and public enlightenment, Mr C. Don  Adinuba, who promised to speak more later via a statement, said the relaxation of the lockdown in Anambra state is part of government’s plans to ease social and economic hardship resulting from the stay-at-home directives.

 

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