NSCDC apprehends lockdown violators in Ondo

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ondo State Command, has arrested five travellers who allegedly violated the border closure order by the state government.

Philip Ayuba, NSCDC Commandant in the state, disclosed to newsmen that the five travellers were apprehended by their officers through sustained intelligence.

They, however, handed over to the Ondo State Task Force on COVID-19.

He said during interrogations, the travellers confessed that 10 of them who left Sokoto State alighted in Ibadan in Oyo State.

The commandant said two of them joined a heavy-duty vehicle to Ondo state and were accommodated by three of their friends resident in Oba-ile, Akure.

Ayuba warned all heavy-duty vehicle drivers conveying essential goods, to desist from “pretentious” haulage of passengers into the state as those caught in this act would face the wrath of the law.