COVID-19: Umahi imposes curfew on Ebonyi

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has imposed a daily curfew on the state starting from 7pm to 7am in the morning.

Umahi, who made the pronouncement in a broadcast on Saturday, also directed security agencies and the anti-coronavirus taskforce to arrest anybody found outside his or her residence during this period.

According to the governor, the curfew takes effect from today, Sunday the 19th of April, 2020, adding that those offering essential services like health workers, the media and security agents are exempted. He however said the exempted workers must have valid passes or permits.

He said: “I hereby direct a total lockdown of the entire state from 7a.m to 7p.m and anybody found outside within this period must be arrested and prosecuted.

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“Only those offering essential services such as Security agents, health workers, Media workers, who must have pass are exempted.

“We have agreed to have seven blockages in each border location. Each entry point of Ebonyi State will have seven blockages. The first one at the boundary between us and another state will be manned by the Army and Army alone. Nobody else will be there.

“Then, at a distance that will be agreed by the Deputy Governor and the security chiefs, the police will mount their own. Only the police will be there. We don’t want anybody else.

Third point will be where the other service chiefs will contribute personnel and mount blockage.”

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