Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate prosecution of Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and other top government officials for violating the social distancing order at late Abba Kyari’s burial.
This was contained in a statement bythe opposition party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan. PDP stated that SGF Mustaoha’s apology is proof that those who make the country laws are the same people that violate them.
PDP which noted that some Nigerians have been punished for floutingthe social distancing order, demanded the same punitive measure on SGF Mustapha and other people who attended the crowded burial ceremony.
The statement reads: “Our party understands that the apology came after widespread condemnation of the conduct of such government officials and other individuals at the funeral.
“It is unfortunate that those who make and enforce rules over ordinary Nigerians were found directly violating the same rules with impunity, thereby compromising the efforts to check the spread of the pandemic in our country.
“Our party holds that the SGF and other government officials including PTF members ought to have shown respect to the memory of Mallam Kyari by conducting themselves in a manner that should have served as a guide to other Nigerians in the fight against COVID-19.
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“This, therefore, is not an act that an apology by the SGF will serve as enough, as it does not drive home the issue at stake to the public as well as to government officials. Consequently, the PDP charges the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) authorities, in line with its actions against ordinary Nigerians who had flouted the rules, to immediately prosecute all government functionaries involved in this violation.
“Nigerians had all watched how the FCT prosecuted residents at various mobile courts across the territory. Justice would therefore only be done and of course, seen to have been done, if the FCT toes the same line in this instance.
“Nigeria as a nation is governed by the constitution in which all Nigerians are deemed equal before the law. Our officials must learn to respect rules made and enforced by them, particularly at this trying time” the statement in part read.”