An Abuja-based lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order directing the Federal Government to stop issuing entry visas to Italians, Iranians and Chinese.

The plaintiff filed the suit with the Attorney General of the Federation as the sole defendant.


He stated in his counter-affidavit that the suit was “propelled by the urgent need to protect the public health of all Nigerians susceptible to infection of the dangerous Coronavirus Disease 2019 that originated from China and has been spreading like wildfire to many parts of the world”.

He said “even the most advanced countries ” had been taking “extreme travel measures” as a precaution, but the “Federal Government of Nigeria has continued to expose millions of hapless, poor and extremely vulnerable Nigerians to the grave but avoidable risk of being eliminated by this extremely dangerous disease by continuing to allow flights from the countries known to be highly infected with the dangerous disease into the Nigerian airspace.”


He noted that the foremost duty of every government elected under the Nigerian Constitution “is the protection of life and property of citizens”, adding that the Federal Government “is under a duty to take all proactive steps to forestall the spread of this globally-dreaded disease in the country.”

Jideobi, therefore, sought, among others, “a mandatory order directing the Federal Government of Nigeria (through her Diplomatic Missions abroad) to cease issuing Nigerian visa (of any category) to citizens of China, Iran and Italy forthwith until and unless the WHO authoritatively confirms that the spiral spread of the dangerous Coronavirus Disease 2019 has effectively been tamed and totally contained.”

https://punchng.com/lawyer-wants-fg-to-stop-chinese-iranian-italian-visitors/

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They need not banned if standard quarantine facilities are available...

tehmih306:
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They need not banned if standard quarantine facilities are available...

The issue is they are not available and would never be available...

Are you not living in Nigeria..?

At most what they would provide is a prison like facility and anybody they put there would be planning his or her escape from day one...and you know Nigeria and corruption, they simply would just settle the people overseeing the facility and run away...simple as ABC...!!

Wawu

Even with quarantine the virus is still spreading.
Everybody should stay in their respective countries until the Coronavirus subsides or until there's a cure.