COVID 19 palliative measures: Buhari, state governors dragged to court

Following permutations by the federal and state governments to further extend the lockdown in view of the Covid 19 epidemic, controversial activist and anti-corruption crusader, Solomon Semaka has dragged President Muhhamdu Buhari ,the federal government and state governors to court for failing to provide the needed palliatives particularly to enhance the testing process and rather focusing on a poorly implemented lockdown.
He noted that the lockdown without a clear template will only increase the suffering of the Nigerian masses and kill more people. Hear him” you know Nigerians have never been comfortable people, there is always an economic crises, so for the Government to just jump start the masses into a Phantom and directions lockdown will amount to double jeaorpardy”
As a public advocate, I am not in any way opposed to precautions and Policy directions to halt further spread of the Covid 19 virus in Nigeria, but I am unable to look the other way if the consequences of the lockdown on Nigerians will equal or surpass the pain of the virus itself. I am unable to see government sincerity in awareness and education to citizens on personal hygiene and sanitation issues. Everything is just eye service.
The government is supposed to provide adequate test kits such that people can be tested in the nearest vicinity, the idea of 10000 tests been run in a country of 200 million people is the most appalling and ridiculous and at the same time insulting hypocrisy ever. And to think it’s such a government that is crippling families in an endless lockdown is unimaginable. He maintained.
A copy of the suit filed at the federal high court Abuja is seeking among the following declarations:
1. To determine if president Buhari has a right to lockdown the country on the basis of COVID-19 without first providing test kits for everyone willing to get tested.
2. If the Nigerian government and the other stakeholders have the right to deny people their fundamental right to liberty as enshrined in the constitution without an amendment and without a clear palliative.
3. Whether the president and the Nigerian government has the right to keep people in lockdown in perpetuity as Long as the COVID-19 or any virus subsist without providing for alternative means of livelihood.
4. That the Court should Compare the federal government of Nigeria and the other stakeholders to purchase rapid test kits from the republic of Germany or elsewhere and make it available before any further lockdown.