COVID-19 lockdown: Ogun arraigns 102 violators

The Ogun State Government has started taking punitive measures against residents violating its directives to curtail the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state. This is as the state, through the aid of security agents, arrested and prosecuted 102 persons for violating the Coronavirus directives of government. It will be recalled that Gov Dapo Abiodun

The Ogun State Government has started taking punitive measures against residents violating its directives to curtail the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state.

It will be recalled that Gov Dapo Abiodun on Friday extended the lockdown in the state for another week. In a chat with DAILY POST on Wednesday, the spokesman of Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the 102 arrested persons were arraigned before a mobile court at Ibara under bridge, Abeokuta.

Some of them, it was learnt, were okada riders, taxi drivers, traders as well as wanderers found on the streets during the lockdown.

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