President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, has written to the leadership of the National Assembly, raising an alarm over an alleged rejection of Coronavirus screening by some of the lawmakers at the country’s airports.
In a letter addressed to both Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on March 21 and had gone viral, Mr Kyari said the minister of health had drawn his attention to repeated violation of screening procedure at the nation’s airports.
“As you are aware, these airport screenings are our primary line of defence and refusal by any citizen to subject to these tests is a threat to our nation,” the chief of staff wrote.
Mr Kyari, therefore, called on the NASS leadership to wade into the matter and make sure that these federal lawmakers who have refused to submit to medical test for COVID-19 do so.