COVID-19: Kwara Places Ban on Commercial Transportation, Social, Religious Gathering
AREWA AGENDA – Government of Kwara State has banned all forms of commercial transportation along with all social and religious gathering as part of its effort to curb incursion of COVID-19 into the State.
The State Deputy Governor, who is the Chair Technical Committee on Covid-19, Mr. Kayode Alabi told reporters in Ilorin, the state capital that as a result of the new directive, all Mosques, Churches and market places stand closed effective immediately.
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He said that the development is aimed at protecting the lives of the residents of the state.
He added that “the lockdown of the state would curb any invassion of unsuspected members of the public that may likely invading the state through commercial operators from the neighbouring states of the federation.”
The governor said that “fast food operators in the state should do take-away of their foods and avoid any customers to sit down to eat in their business premises henceforth”.
Alabi said that government would not rest on its oars to make the state free of the pandemic.
He urged Kwarans to cooperate with the government in the task of curtailing the spread of the pandemic in the state.
