Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, yesterday ordered security
operatives to shoot any returnee that tries to escape from the
quarantine and isolation centres on sight.
The state government had at the weekend ordered immediate isolation
of no fewer than 37 returnees that entered the state through the bush
after the state government ordered the closure of its borders.
He stressed that any of the returnees that try to escape from the
quarantine centre where they would be subjected to medical tests daily
for 14 days following Coronavirus pandemic should be shot on sight.
The state government had ordered that all the borders in the state be
immediately shut down to prevent the Coronavirus from spreading to the
state.
But no fewer than 30 persons were said to have entered the bush and
crossed to a boundary town between Abakaliki and Enugu where vehicles
were already on standby to carry them to their various destinations.
The 30 escapees and seven returnees were later taken to a quarantine
centre at the Abakaliki Township Stadium where Umahi visited them at 9
pm and ordered that they are subjected to a daily medical examination
for 14-days.
In a related development, Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade
has recalled workers of the state-owned Garment Factory to work for mass
production of the face and nose masks.
A statement issued yesterday by his Special Adviser Media and
Publicity Christian Ita quoted the governor as saying that they are to
resume work today after the factory was disinfected yesterday.
He said the workers were initially sent home in line with the partial
lockdown declared by the governor last week as a precautionary measure
against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Besides, residents of Rivers State have lamented hunger following the
lockdown of markets and borders being implemented by the State
Government at all levels to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
They lauded the government’s measures to prevent the spread of the
deadly virus but lamented that total closure of all markets in the State
no matter how small was imminent for their survival.
The residents said the government should have exempted sellers of
food items from the lockdown to enable the people to have access to food
as they remain indoors.
Ikenna Amadi, a resident on Afikpo Street in Mile One, Diobu, Port
Harcourt said, “The government’s decision to close all markets in the
state was hasty, especially knowing that workers had not received their
salaries and had no money to stock food.”
A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Eli Sukarime,
however, stated that the lockdown was an effective measure to check the
spread of the virus, but noted that there would have been provision of
welfare for the people to cushion the effects of hunger.
Meanwhile, the Kwara State government has contracted the Technical
Entrepreneurship Centre (TEC), University of Ilorin, to produce hand
sanitisers for onward distribution to the people of the state.
Director of the Centre, Dr. Jamiu Kolawole Odusote, who disclosed this, said the production contract was worth over N30m.
Odusote said the management of the university concluded arrangements
with the state government on the need to engage the TEC for mass
production of the sanitisers.
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