THE Mobile Court sitting in the Umuahia North Council Headquarters,today, had before them, massive number of people who were arrested by the Abia Covid 19 Taskforce, for flaunting government’s lockdown directives, including a Dangote truck conveying a group of suspected almajiris.
In an interview with newsmen at the Umuahia North Council Headquarters, the Transition Committee Chairman, Hon Lucky Akabuike said the lockdown still subsist in the state and wonder why people would go about their businesses,claiming ignorant of the lockdown order.
According to him,the government only eased the lockdown partially last week’s Saturday and Sunday, so people can go for their worship and it’s not applicable to other days.
He stated that the chairman of the Abia State Covid 19 Committee, Barr Chris Ezem, said the government would work out modalities to ease out the lockdown and not that they have worked out modalities and lamented how people misconstrued the statement to be easing of lockdown.
The TC chairman said there won’t be any reason for relaxing the lockdown when the indices that neccesitated the lockdown abnitio still subsist.
He begged Abians, particularly Umuahia North residents to adhere strictly to government’s directive, so as to contain the spread of the coronavirus, saying that Nigeria do not have the manpower as well as the facilities to handle the spread of pandemic, adding that the only way out of it, is to lockdown.
” The virus do not travel on its own,it is being carried around by human beings,so if we stay at home, the chances of coming in contact with it would be reduced”.
The Council boss,however, told Abians to exercise patience with the government over the lockdown, saying the government is equally loosing out as a result of the lockdown,with little or nothing coming in as revenue whereas alot is being spent on workers’ salaries.
