Lockdown: Police turn medical doctors back on Akwa Ibom roads — NMA
The police tightened their operation on the roads after some officers were reportedly reprimanded by the state commissioner of police over the number of cars and people seen moving freely in the city, a source told PREMIUM TIMES.
“The policemen told all the cars to go back that they have instruction from the commissioner of police not to allow anybody to be on the road. There was even an ambulance, they also ordered it to go back,” one witness said.The Nigerian Medical Association , Akwa Ibom State, said in a statement that “most of their members could not go to work because of the development.”
“To this end, NMA-AKS advises all her members that in the event of being denied passage while on your way to work, please be civil, do not resist, but return home and notify your superior at work,” Mr Nyoyoko said.
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