The Ogun State Police Command has vowed to arrest anyone moving around the state without wearing a face mask and arraign such person before a court.

The state government had ordered that residents must wear face masks at public places while cab drivers and motorcycle riders had been asked to cut down the number of their passengers to three and one respectively.

The command also threatened to impound any vehicle or motorcycle riders caught carrying more than the required passengers.

The Ogun State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, gave the warning in a statement on Thursday, May 7th, 2020.

Oyeyemi said the command had deployed its officers across the state to arrest violators of the state government directives on social distancing and use of face masks.

The PPRO noted that, some commercial drivers and motorcycle riders were still engaging in overloading their vehicles with passengers.

The police spokesperson however called on people of the state to cooperate with the government in other to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

He said,

The Ogun State Police Command has observed with dismay the flagrant disobedience to the government directives which made it compulsory for everybody to always put on face masks when moving around within the state in order to mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus also known as COVID-19.

The command also observed that commercial vehicles and motorcycles are still in the habit of overloading their vehicles with passengers thereby disobeying the directive on social/physical distancing which is capable of jeopardizing the efforts of the government in the war against COVID-19 pandemic.

Justin Nwosu

Justin Nwosu is the founder and publisher of Flavision. His core interest is in writing unbiased news about Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. He’s a strong adherent of investigative journalism, with a bent on exposing corruption, abuse of power and societal ills.