Coronavirus: Funke Akindele, husband, others risk jail sentence over house party – Daily Post Nigeria

Widespread Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele was on Sunday evening arrested at her residence in Amen Property, Lagos State for violating restriction orders.

Akindele had organized a celebration for her husband, JJC Skillz, with greater than 20 individuals in attendance, resulting in her arrest.

The Lagos State authorities had banned all religious or social gatherings of greater than 20 individuals so as to curtail the unfold of Coronavirus within the state.

The Lagos State Home of Meeting handed a invoice titled, ‘A Regulation to Fight and Cease the Unfold of Coronavirus Pandemic in Lagos State and for Related Functions,’ to prosecute those that flout directives to stop the unfold of COVID-19.

The invoice, which has 25 sections, provides Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu the ability to spend not less than N20 billion to fight the pandemic in Lagos State.

In accordance with the Lagos An infection Illnesses Rules 2020, a jail time period of 1 month or N100,000 nice or each have been prescribed to anybody discovered responsible of internet hosting gatherings or flouting the lockdown order.

The laws have been made underneath the Lagos State Public Well being Regulation, and Part eight of the Quarantine Act, Cap Q2 LFN 2004 (the “Quarantine Act”) to stop additional unfold of the virus.

The regulation act reads partly: “The place there’s a violation of a close-down or stay-at-home order, safety companies shall have the ability to arrest with out warrant and should detain any particular person, who violates the close-down or stay-at-home order, for not less than 48 hours.

“The place the arrested particular person is discovered responsible, the particular person is liable to a nice of N100,000 or one-month imprisonment or three months of group service.”

Anybody who fails to adjust to the directives underneath the laws or fails to obey restriction order could also be liable to a nice, imprisonment or to each.

This places Akindele and others on the danger of spending a month in jail, nice of N100,000 or three months group service.

In the meantime, the Lagos State police command has requested Funke’s husband, JJC and Naira Marley to seem on Monday or danger being declared needed.