{"id":333099,"date":"2017-07-01T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333099"},"modified":"2017-07-01T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T06:00:22","slug":"the-president-does-not-have-a-general-power-to-declare-holidays-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/the-president-does-not-have-a-general-power-to-declare-holidays-article\/","title":{"rendered":"The President does not have a general power to declare holidays [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are 3 categories of holidays under Act 601.
\n1. Public Holiday listed in Schedule 1 – this includes all the religious holidays and national days – Republic and independence.<\/p>\n
2. Additional holidays. These are holidays that the President may declare.<\/p>\n
3. Substituted holidays- as the name suggests substituting one holiday with another day. President is given the power to do this.<\/p>\n
My view:
\na. The President has no power in declaring category 1 holidays. Category 1 holidays are statutory holidays determined expressly by legislation. Even the publication by the interior ministry on category 1 holidays is a needless process.<\/p>\n
b. The President has power to declare additional holidays outside category 1 holidays. Any other day aside category 1 holidays.<\/p>\n
c. Substituted holidays. The President only has the power to substitute holidays with another day.<\/p>\n
We have not implemented this law effectively as we do to all our laws.<\/p>\n
We must fully operationalize Section 3 of Act 601 by substituting ALL holidays which fall on working days from Monday -Thursday be moved to FRIDAYS.<\/p>\n
ALL category 1 holidays which fall on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) should not be substituted and must be celebrated and observed as such.<\/p>\n
This is an easy way to increase productivity and increase revenue.<\/p>\n
We don’t need the Chinese to implement this!<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Clement Akapame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are 3 categories of holidays under Act 601. 1. Public Holiday listed in Schedule 1 – this includes all the religious holidays and national days – Republic and independence. 2. Additional holidays. These are holidays that the President may declare. 3. Substituted holidays- as the name suggests substituting one holiday with another day. President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[374],"tags":[8783,8784],"yoast_head":"\n