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Nigeria: Ekiti arrests soldier’s wife for visiting husband despite being coronavirus positive

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May 7, 2020
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London, May 7, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Ekiti State Government has arrested the wife of a top military man in the state who came into the state from Katsina despite being positive with COVID-19, violating the lockdown and prohibition of inter-state movement order

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi

The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said on Wednesday that the woman who came to visit her husband had committed an offence and would face prosecution.

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Yaya-Kolade said, “Though it was the husband who alerted us, it is  an offence against the state and the Ministry of Justice will take appropriate actions against her at the right time.”

She said the woman’s husband who was her only main contact had been quarantined for 14 days in line with the World Health Organisation guidelines.

The state government also said  it had arrested 10 other people and had   kept them  in quarantine following  measures to prevent  coronavirus spread  in the state.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Health, Dr Jimlas  Ogunsakin, said  seven of them returned to the state from Kano State. He said three others who are women forcibly entered the state.

Ogunsakin, who made the  revelation  in Ado Ekiti during an update on COVID-19 in Ekiti on Wednesday, said the women would be prosecuted.

He said,  “We got several tip-offs from people and we acted on them. The Kano returnees came to Adeparusi Estate in Adebayo and some came to Atinkankan area. We got the information from the public and we got them arrested and they were quarantined immediately.”

Meanwhile, Governor Kayode Fayemi on Wednesday sought  the support of  road transport unions in the state towards enforcing the inter-state travel ban.

Fayemi, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Biodun Omoleye, during a meeting  between the  COVID-19 task  force and  transport unions in the state, said the battle against the pandemic should be a collective thing.

His  deputy, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, said  state government had directed security agencies manning borders and checkpoints to henceforth carry out rigorous checks on vehicles conveying essential commodities across  the state, according to  a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Odunayo Ogunmola.

He said, “This government will not fold its arms and allow some individuals to sabotage its efforts in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding the health of the people.

“We hereby direct  the  security agencies at the borders and checkpoints to henceforth scrutinise the interiors of all vehicles coming into or passing through the state in search of the people who might be hiding inside.

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