In a bid to enforce the lockdown order with a view to preventing the spread of Coronavirus in the state, Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday, signed the Osun Infectious Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020.
Oyetola noted that he made the order in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and other relevant provisions of the State of Osun Public Health Law.
The law, it was gathered was aimed at preventing and containing the spread of Covid- 19, anywhere within the territories of Osun.
Following the signing of the law, anybody who violates the Sit-at-home order will be sentenced to six-month imprisonment or an option of fine upon conviction.
Similarly, under the law, transmission or dissemination of false information regarding Covid-19 is also an offence and attracts the same punishment, just as the promotion of unverified, untested, or unapproved cures, vaccines or other similar items that purport to cure, alleviate or reduce instances of persons infected with Covid-19, also constitute an offence and offenders upon conviction will be liable to six-month imprisonment or an option of fine.
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