PDP TO FCT: Prosecute SGF, others as you did to ordinary citizens who flouted Covid-19 order

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) authorities to prosecute Boss Mustapha the same way it prosecuted ordinary Nigerians who flouted social distancing and other orders put in place to prevent spread of Covid-19.

Mustapha, who is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic was at the burial of the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, where the social restriction directive of the Nigerian Government and FCT authorities was disobeyed.

The SGF had on Monday tendered a public apology regarding the flouting of the social distancing order.

But the PDP, in a statement on Tuesday by its national spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the apology by the SGF was not enough and demanded that he be prosecuted alongside all those at the burial last Saturday.

“Our party understands that the apology came after widespread condemnation of the conduct of such government officials and other individuals at the funeral.

“The PDP describes as 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.

“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.

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“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,” PDP said.

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