Travel restriction: Buhari, politicians visiting UK for medical tourism most hit - Deji Adeyanju

Activist Deji Adeyanju of Concerned Nigerians has said that medical tourists to the United Kingdom including the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will be most affected by the travel restrictions slammed on Nigeria by Britain. He stated that the travel restriction by the Boris Johnson administration, as well as other nations, was baseless as there was no need for panic. Britain had on Saturday banned Nigerian travellers after it said it discovered 21 cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in people who recently visited Nigeria, saying the measure was a temporary measure aimed at protecting its public health. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, subsequently said the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 would respond to the travel restriction, describing the measure as discriminatory, even as Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK, Sharafa Ishola, described the restriction as apartheid. Adeyanju said, “The people who will be most affected are not just the bourgeoisie – the leaders – but real people; so many people travel to these destinations for Christmas will be affected and most hit by this action.”