The Federal Capital Territory Administration has begun the enforcement of no vaccination no entry into the Area 11, Garki Secretariat, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that as early as 7am, on Monday, the implementation team manned the entrance of the secretariat in collaboration with security men.
The NAN correspondent who monitored the enforcement exercise observed that many staff and visitors were turned back.
Some of them were seen loitering at the entrances while many others begged to be given access.
Ikharo Attah, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to the FCT Minister, said that the enforcement would be sustained to ensure maximum compliance.
He said that there was no going back on enforcement of the directive, adding that pictures of vaccination cards on phones and photocopies would not be accepted.
Attah added that enforcement team had been deployed at the premises of the FCTA and secretariats and departments to monitor compliance.
“We will be following up seriously on this and we have also warned people not to snap their card on the phone as we want to see the original card; don’t show us vaccination card on phone.
“We will be asking for identity cards and we would match the cards with your COVID-19 vaccination card so that you don’t bring someone else’s card as your own,” he said.
NAN reports that the enforcement team went round some of the agencies of FCTA, including the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, Social Development Secretariat and FCT Universal Basic Education Board.
Others are FCT Water Board, Secondary Education Board, FCT Primary Health Care Board, Public Health Department, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency and FCT Area Council Staff Pension Board.
NAN had earlier reported that the FCTA, on Tuesday, January 11, said that it would bar workers from accessing their offices as from January 17 for failing to show proof of their vaccination against COVID-19.
The Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Media and Strategic Communication, Malam Abubakar Sani, in a statement, said that there was an earlier warning in a circular signed by the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola, to the effect.
(NAN).
