Coronavirus: Buhari’s Lockdown Order Is Legal – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that President Buhari’s lockdown order in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT is legal. 

The Vice President who disclosed this while speaking at a Google Hangout, a programme organised by HACK COVID-19 Call Centre in Abuja on Monday March 30, stated that the legality of the president’s order is unnecessary because it is backed by an act of the national assembly.

In a statement issued by Osinbajo’s media aide Laolu Akande, the Vice President stated that the Quarantine Act of 1926 which is published in all Nigerian laws allows the President to designate any local area, any part of the country, as a place that may be infected or under the threat of a communicable disease, and he can then make regulations of any kind.

He said;