The Federal Government has vowed to clamp down on Very Important Personalities, (VIPs) and government officials who fail to obey travel protocols, including undergoing compulsory COVID-19 tests after returning into the country.
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, stated this yesterday, in a video posted by the Ministry of Information and Culture on Twitter.
Recall that the government had last week released the passport numbers of 100 travellers who failed to undergo COVID-19 tests after returning into the country. It placed a travel restriction on the passport holders for six months from January 1, 2021, to June 30, 2021.
According to Aliyu, more defaulting passport numbers would be released by
the government weekly.
He said, “We want to change people’s behaviour. We’ve shown that we are
going to do it. We have done it and we will continue to do it every week until things change. It is not like we want to punish people but if you
continue to put our country at risk, we will take action.
“Next week, we will publish another 100, subsequent weeks, we will continue
to publish until we see an improvement in terms of the compliance.“, he stated.
