Human Right Lawyer and Social Commentator Abdul Mahmud has said the controversial Infectious diseases bill sponsored by House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila which seeks to repeal the Quarantine Act 2004 will create a legal brouhaha.

According to him, the bill seeks to strip powers granted to the President under the Quarantine Act and hand same powers over to the DG NCDC who’s an appointee of the President.

He said in this in an open letter to the Speaker shared on his official twitter handle.

See his tweets to the Speaker below…

Dear Hon. Speaker, Sir @femigbaja, greetings. Consequent on your plan to pass the Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 next Tuesday, I humbly wish to register my objection to your proposed plan hereunder. Grounds of my objection are set out seriatim as follows

1) As have been noted by Nigerians, your proposed Bill doesn’t anyway suit the peculiar democratic environment for which it is proposed, considering that the Singapore law

For which it is tailored (though many accuse you of plagiarism- a moral cross hung around the neck of your bill) is a product of an undemocratic and draconian era

2) Your bill does not address our peculiar circumstances as a nation fighting a serious public health crisis never experienced before in its history. No nation proposes a new law in the middle of a crisis capable of destroying it

3) Your Bill which seeks to repeal the Quarantine Act 2004 will create legal brouhaha as it seeks to strip powers granted to the President under the Quarantine Act and hand same powers over to the DG NCDC who’s an appointee of the President

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Your safety is exclusively to you (you are the one to ensure your personal and family safety).
Make sure you protect yourself.
You cannot depend on the government.

The seriousness of the virus will force people to adjust naturally.
There was no social distancing at one Access Bank branch in Abuja yesterday Monday 4th of May.
Come and watch the memes of face mask and how people are using it.

Some people use it to cover their mouth, some shift it down to the jaw, some even move it up like speck, while some will remove it whenever they want to talk.

As a local man, I was dumbfounded yesterday.

Why are Northerners scared and oppose to strengthening Institiution as opposed to just making one man Super powerful.. so powerful that his or her underperfomance would spell doom to the country

President isn't a Medical Experts and so far so good his attitude towards issuing out lockdown and quarantine or easing out lockdown has shown his naivety of the complexity of the Medical situation and merely follows public opinion and outcry

NCDC should hold the power and authority to issue out lockdown after consultation with the senate and the presidency, and powers relating to such should be completely taken out of politicians hands especially people like Ganduje or Yahaya Bello


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This is certainly not the best of time for the gates family with all these saga. And I wish him the best if innocent