By: Sina ODUNTAN
The Labour Party (LP) in Ogun State wants
members of Ogun State House of Assembly who recently returned from a tour of
the United Kingdom to be quarantined.
The party, which wants all the lawmakers,
including the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, and their aides quarantined,
said in a statement made available to thedispatch that they refused screening
at the airport and failed to self-isolate themselves since their arrival.
The party State Chairman, Abayomi Arabambi
said: “It has become grave, so dangerous and compulsory to force into isolation
immediately, not only those who just returned from the UK and other Western
world, but all the members of the legislature including the Speaker and the
totality of the staff and aides with their families.”
Arabambi said, “Even the friends
identified to have come into contact with all the mentioned should be compelled
to self – isolate themselves and thereafter be screened.”
Labour Party posited that it is clearly a thing
of shame that some highly positioned individuals could, “deliberately be callous
enough to endanger the lives of the citizens of Ogun State in this reckless
manner”, saying they are men who by right, should be looked upon by the society
as examples to others.
He said one cannot find any justification
for the “deliberate and plain disobedience to the existing directives” of both
the Federal and the State Government by the Legislature.
“It is very sad that it is a band of
totally careless legislators who will with impunity put all into danger of
collapse in spite of all the efforts of Governor Dapo Abiodun to stop the
spread of COVID-19.
“We in the Labour Party in Ogun State, as
the official party representing the interests of the working class, formal and
informal sectors and citizens of Ogun State strongly condemn in the extreme
this act of the elected members of the OGHA, and we state unequivocally that
the government should immediately send the disobedient legislators into
self-isolation, identify all persons they had contacts with and do the needful.
“All the members of the Ogun House of
Assembly should be immediately rounded up and quarantined because the first
victim of COVID-19 in Ogun also arrived simultaneously with the members of the
Ogun Legislature from the UK.
“The House of Assembly complex should be
closed up and fumigated,” Arabambi stated.
However, since the arrival of about 20
legislators and their aides about 14 days none of them of them has shown
symptoms of the dreaded disease, Coronavirus.
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