Robert Egbe
The Coalition for A Better Nigeria has urged the Federal and state governments to enforce social distancing in markets and bus parks.
It advised that market associations and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) be compelled to implement the directive.
National Coordinator Awa Bamiji, in a statement yesterday, said: “The three tiers of government must do more on enforcement of social spacing, and ensure that the NURTW and market associations follow them.”
He also urged the government to compel the organisations to ‘provide electric thermometers and alcohol-based hand sanitisers in all the motor parks, garages, bus stops, markets, buses and cabs, if they must open their businesses at all’.
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“Nigeria did not close our airports and seaports early enough to forestall uninterrupted flights that brought in the Italian and other cases that followed.
“We also advise the three governments, corporate bodies and wealthy individuals to start sharing relief and preventive packages to the downtrodden to make life easier for them at this period, like what is currently obtainable in other countries,” Bamiji added.
The group, however, thanked the Federal Government for reducing the pump price of petrol from N145 to N125per litre.
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