April 21, 2020
By Ijendu Iheaka
Abia Commissioner for Homeland Security, Chief Dan Okoli has warned that the surge in the number of people coming to Abia boundaries is to endangering the state.
Chief Dan Okoli disclosed this Tuesday during an interview with our Correspondent in Aba.
“We have been doing our best to ensure that Abia state’s boundaries are properly manned to cut off people entering the state and stop possible spread of the coronavirus but the people would not listen.
“You can hear the noise here now. I am at the Onuimo gate which is Abia state’s boundary with Imo state.
“If you see the surge of people here, you will pity us. They are more than 200 persons wanting to enter the state or go out and we tell them to stay at home but they would not listen.
“This is a dangerous development because if you use force to move them now somebody may be injured or die but when it is reported it may not be correctly represented. That is our dilemma.
“People in the media should do all in your powers to increase the enlightenment because the reality of Coronavirus in Nigeria and Abia state now still sounds like a fairy tale to some people and this is very painful”, he lamented.
Okoli therefore urged people who have no business moving around the places to stay at home in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the state.
This site reports that the suspicion that the two index cases were infected by persons from other states necessitated this call.
The two index cases recorded in Ukwa on Abia’s boundary with Rivers State and Umuahia North on Abia’s boundary with Imo state were infected by persons from other states.
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