Covid-19: Buhari’s Chief of Staff Writes Gbajabiamila Over Members’ Refusal For Airport Screening

Posted on March 23, 2020

The Chief  of staff to the President, Mallam Abba kyari, has written a memo to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, on the refusal of some house members to present themselves for screening at the nation’s international airports.

In the memo, Kyari intimated the Speaker of the reported cases of the members who were approached on arrival but often refused to be screened.

“It has been brought to the Honourable Minister of Health recently reported to his office that some members of the House of Representatives are refusing to subject themselves to medical screening at the airports,” the statement reads.

“As you are aware, these airports screenings are our primary line of defence and refusal by any citizen to subject to these tests is a threat to our nation,” it added.

The Chief of Staff then pleaded with the Speaker to intervene and advice the Federal lawmakers of the importance of the screening which is part of the efforts to prevent the spread of the virus by those returning to the country.

The bromide of the memo:

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