By Tosin Olatokunbo
Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has lashed out at top government officials in the country for flouting the Quarantine Act, signed this year by President Muhammadu Buhari to contain the corona virus pandemic.
She also called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately release her aides who were arrested and detained for trying to force a top presidency official to self isolate after contracting the corona virus.
Her Aide de Camp, ADC Usman Shugaba, and two other were arrested on the order of the president’s Chief Security Officer, after they tried to stop Yusuf Sabiu, popular as Tunde from forcing his way into the Presidential Villa.
The aides have been detained since then and several efforts by the wife of the president to get them freed, the magazine learnt have been rebuffed.
But in a tweet on Friday, the First Lady took the matter to the public insisting that the police have no right to continue to detain her aides for doing the right thing.
She also lashed out at government officials for careless conduct that aid the spread of COVID 19, insisting that no one is above the law.
According to her “That Covid-19 is real and still very much around in our nation is not in doubt. Consequently, I call on all relevant government agencies to enforce the Quarantine Act signed by Mr President and ensure no one is found violating this law and the NCDC (Nigeria Centre for Disease Control) guidelines, especially on interstate travel without the necessary exemptions for movement of essentials.
Anyone who does that should at the very least be made to undergo a-14 day mandatory isolation no matter who the person is, no one should be above the law and the police command will do well to remember that.”
She called on “the IGP to release my assigned staff who are still in the custody of the police in order to avoid putting their lives in danger or exposure to Covid-19 while in their custody.”
Aisha has been involved in spat with presidential aides in the past.
Last October, she accused Mamman Daura, the president’s nephew and other presidency officials of denying her access from the villa.
