Nigerians Blast Funke Akindele, Husband For Holding A House Party Amidst Coronavirus Lockdown

Nigerians are very angry with Nollywood actress cum producer, Funke Akindele and her husband, JJC Skillz for organising a house party on Saturday in the midst of the raging coronavirus pandemic. This violates President Muhammadu Buhari’s stay at home and social distancing directives, measures adopted to control the spread of the coronavirus disease.

The party was held in Akindele’s home with guests of over 25 people including a hip-hop singer, Naira Marley and Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus who recently returned from the United Kingdom.

Nigerians took to Twitter to express their disappointment at what the couple had done

They described the act as highly irresponsible and disappointing, and described Akindele who happens to be an ambassador to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC and Dettol as a bad example to the nation, and urged the government to arrest them and quarantine everyone who attended the party.

Some Nigerians asked Federal Government to quarantine those who attended the party, others also called for their arrest.

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Gross irresponsibility at its peak. With everything that is going on? Jeez, i am so disappointed in Funke Akindele and her husband. How can you put the rest of us at risk at a time such as this? To think she was yarning okpas in that NCDC video. Hypocrisy 101.Alabosi aye. Mtcheew

— Adeleke Adeotan (@adeleke_adeotan) April 5, 2020

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