The police in Abuja have arrested 1,909 persons for violating the presidential lockdown order.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, disclosed on Friday that 1,736 were convicted by 13 mobile courts, adding that 145 persons were discharged and 28 cases adjourned.
“In the course of this enforcement exercise, persons arrested for violating the presidential directive are arraigned before mobile courts. The convicted violators were sentenced to community service or asked to pay a fine.”
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