Buhari has final decision on governors’ lockdown accord - SGF
Buhari has final decision on governors’ lockdown accord - SGF Apr 24, 2020 5:47 AM …as Kebbi withdraws from interstate agreement President Muhammadu Buhari will decide on the two weeks’ national lockdown proposed by the governors. Governors of the 36 states had on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an Inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to help check the spread of COVID-19 from state to state. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, Boss Mustapha, gave this clarification in Abuja, on Thursday. said every inputs including that of the governors would be collated by the committee and a report submitted to the president. “Basically what they (governors) are suggesting is that travels from one state to the other should be stopped with certain exemptions of essential services, petroleum products, farm inputs, fertilizer so that we can k...