By Kenneth Onuoha
365Daily – Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, has imposed a curfew at all the entry and exit points borders of the state.
Umahi stated this during the State Security Council meeting held at the New Government House, Abakaliki,.
He said the curfew would take effect on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, from 8pm to 6am.
Umahi said it was necessitated by the recent security breaches and deadly attacks on security personnel by yet to be identified gunmen. The Governor also announced the ban on night clubs, burial wake, birthdays till further notice.
The Governor said: “The Government of Ebonyi State has decided to restrict night movements into and out of the State from the land borders of the State.
“We have agreed that all native doctors in the state and traditional medicine dealers must within seven days today register with the Commissioner for Border Peace, with the Commissioner for health and with the CP. ”
“There will be an executive order to this event and anyone that is caught doing otherwise will be arrested and will be prosecuted.
“We are aware that there are some killings over the weekend; a policeman was killed, two army men were killed and I think one civilian and their killers are pure bandits. They do these killings and put it in social media that they are members of IPOB or ESN.
“Without standing for either IPOB or ESN, but they continue to deny that they are not into violence but for me, criminality is criminality and I have directed security agencies to crackdown on all criminal activities in the state. And for those who did the killings, the security agencies must bring them to book within 72 hours, they must do that.
“We agreed that there is rampant of fake news in Ebonyi State. Like today, somebody posted that herdsmen are in Ebonyi and they are killing people and schools started closing down, students and pupils started running around, is that what we will continue to tolerate?
“And so, I have directed whether you are in opposition, whether you are in agreement, whatever thing you are, you should be tracked down so that you should be going to court to prove whatever thing you are putting.
“We have directed that all wake keep in the state must end by 6pm and the local government chairmen, security agents and Ebube Agu must enforce this. All social activities must end by 6pm. When you defy this order, you will pay a minimum of N1 million because a lot of activities happen during this wake keep going into the night”.