Lawyers under the Advocates for Peoples Rights and Justice have filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the federal government over the COVID-19 certification policy announced for federal government workers.
The federal government had declared that from 1st December 2021, its employees shall be required to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR test result done within 72 hours, to gain access to their offices, in all locations within Nigeria and missions abroad.
In the fundamental rights suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the CSOs, Victor Giwa Esq, is contending that the policy is a violation of Section 37 of the Nigerian Constitution,1999.
The CSO contends that every citizen has a right to privacy of his medical status within their exclusive preserve, adding the policy of display of the certificate is a patent exposure of the private information, which violates medical privacy and other international conventions.
