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JUST IN: 150 Travellers Busted In Enugu For Defying Lockdown
No fewer than 150 travellers have been arrested in Enugu State for disobeying the government’s lockdown order.
The State Government had late March imposed border restrictions as part of measures to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Our correspondent, who was at Opi, one of the communities near the Enugu-Benue-Kogi borders, reports that over 30 vehicles were impounded by the military.
The affected commuters, mostly from the Northern part of the country, who said they have been held since yesterday, claimed that hunger drove them away from their States.
One of them, who identified himself as Peter from Benue State, told journalists, “I’m aware of the order but hunger is killing me. That is why I have to come out.”
Another defaulting traveller, heading for the North, revealed that, “I crossed Bonny River to escape from Port-Harcourt.
“Enugu is not my destination; I’m on my way to Kano, my home, it is better for me to die there. Hunger is killing me.”
He revealed that they beat the tight border security post at Amala, Obollo-Afor in Udenu Local Government Area by taking a walk through the Benue axis to Obollo-Afor from where they boarded vehicles.
As of the time of filing this report, they were turned back and escorted out of the State by a team of security agencies.
On other note, Governor was said to have visited the major market in the state, ‘Ogbete Main Market’, to observe the level of compliance to the directives that all the markets in the state with the exemption of food markets be close down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But when he got to the market, those selling wears were said to have taken over the food section of the market and they were allegedly ordered by the governor to vacate the market as they were not exempted to trade.
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