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The governor declared that government might be forced to review the terms of easing the lockdown if there was no improvement in the adherence to the guidelines initiated to break the cycle of transmission of the virus.Vehicles carrying people in violation of the ban on interstate travels were intercepted in Abia, Cross River and Kwara States.
“We will be forced to take a painful decision of bringing the entire system under lockdown if we continue to see evidence that Lagosians are determined to flout the rules. The Governor also instructed security personnel to turn back all pedestrians trekking to Lagos from boundary highways. “But for the alertness of the police officers posted to our borders, the corpse would have successfully made it to its destination in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area,” he said.
The truck driver who gave his name as Isah Amodu, said he was on his way to Nasarawa State from Awka Ibom. He claimed ignorance of any lockdown in the state.Officials of the Cross River State government and security operatives yesterday intercepted another set of trucks carrying no fewer than 30 Qur’anic education pupils “Almajiri” at the Gakem-Benue border in the state.
“That is the only way we can reduce the number that is building every day and contain the virus,” she said. “The command wishes to use this opportunity to solicit the cooperation of inhabitants of border communities in the state to always volunteer information on movements of vehicles/people on illegal routes traversing their communities.”The Ogun State Government said on Saturday that specimens had been taken from the corpse of a woman found within the Public Health Centre located at the Abeokuta Central Business District , Okelewo, for Coronavirus test.
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