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Lawyers Drag Buhari, Others To Court Over Kyari’s Death

Emmanuel Onminyi by Emmanuel Onminyi
May 2, 2020
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The Chairman of the Bwari branch of the Nigerian Bar Association in Abuja, Mr Clement Chukwuemeka, and three others have sued President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, for the alleged violation of the COVID-19 regulations during the burial of late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari.

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Marked FHC/ABJ/462/2015, the suit was filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja on April 30, by Chukwuemeka, two other lawyers- Olalekan Oladapo, and Raphael Ogbe, as well as a civil society group, Wheel of Hope Human Rights Foundation.

Other defendants joined along with Buhari and Mustapha in the suit are the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Ministry of Information.

The complainants alleged that the handling of the burial of the presidential top aide violated the COVID-19 Regulations issued by Buhari and the guidelines issued by the World Health Organisation and the NCDC.

The late Chief of Staff died of complications related to the COVID-19 on April 17 and was buried at the Gudu Cemetery in Abuja according to Islamic rites.

The burial drew a large crowd, including top government officials who reportedly failed to observe the recommended social distancing measures.

The development sparked concerns about the possibility of an escalation of the spread of the dreaded COVID-19.

Members of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 had apologised for the breach of the regulations and protocols at the burial.

The complainants alleged that Buhari, Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the PTF,  and other defendants failed to ensure public safety during the burial.

They also recalled how Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband were arrested, prosecuted, fined N100,000 each by the court and given 14 days’ community service for violating the stay-at-home and social distancing orders in Lagos.

Noting that over 1,000 persons had been arrested and tried in the FCT, for similar breaches, they insisted that:

Nigerians expect that having used certain persons as scapegoats, no one should be spared and no one is a sacred cow.

They also questioned why Kyari’s corpse “was released to his family for burial in the first place, contrary to the claim by the Minister of Information and Culture,  Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a forum organised by the News Agency of Nigeria on April 3.”

According to the plaintiffs, the minister had said that bodies of COVID-19 victims cannot be claimed for burial/internment due to their contagious nature.

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