COVID-19: Confirmed cases now 85 in Kwara as police uncover eight illegal travel routes

Date: 2020-05-28

Confirmed cases of Covid-19 have risen to 85 in Kwara State, according to the latest update released on Wednesday.

The total test done is now 1224, while the number of active cases has risen to 50.

A total of 34 patients have been discharged, with 1083 negative tests recorded, 55 pending tests being awaited and one death recorded.

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has announced the discovery and closure of eight illegal routes created by transporters to smuggle passengers into the State against the Covid-19 interstate travel ban.

He, therefore, suggested tougher sanctions to the state government to check violation of the interstate travel ban.

Speaking at the meeting of the members of the Federal government joint technical task team, on Covid-19 to ease the challenges of movement of food and agricultural inputs in Kwara State, the CP who is the chairman of the team, said despite measures put in place by security agencies to check interstate travel ban, truck drivers keep on developing tricks to beat the security agencies, hence the need for stiff sanctions to be meted out.

"I still receive reports of violations of border closure restrictions by truck drivers. We have closed eight illegal routes by truck drivers, but despite our efforts, it is not serving as a deterrent. They keep on smuggling passengers into the State with different trucks.

"In fact, I am going to suggest to the State government that henceforth, any vehicle caught should be impounded and the vehicle forfeited to the State government, the driver should be convicted and sentenced, while the passengers should be conveyed back to their respective States," Egbetokun declared.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

CKNG     Saliu Ajia     YAKOOYO     Federal Allocation     Moremi High School     Iyeru Grammar School     Bond     Tunji Folami     Saka Keji     Ballah     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Mashood Dauda     Okin High School     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Bisi Oyeleke     Durosinlohun Kawu     Segun Ogunsola     New Naira Notes     Mumeen Lah     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Dogara     Saka Aleshinloye     Sa\'adu Salau     Ibrahim Mashood     Kayode Laro     Tafidan Kaiama     Femi Ogunsola     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Wahab Egbewole     KWTV     Sulyman Buhari     Awwal Jawondo     Ishola Abdullahi     CBT     GAMA     Alabi Lawal     Kwasu     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Aminat Ahmed     Balogin Alanamu     Share/Tsaragi     Bola Tinubu     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Yaru     Niyi Osundare     Oyin-Zubair     Bisi Kristien     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Olabanji Orilonishe     Christian Association Of Nigeria     EndSARS     Olatomiwa Williams     Ilorin General Hospital     Sidikat Akaje     Muslim Cementary     Lola Olabayo     Eghe Igbinehin     Sam Onile     Fatimoh Lawal     HYPPADEC     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Danladi     Roheemat Hammed     Abatemi-Usman     Makama Of Ilorin     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Sarah Alade     Nupe     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     MAI Akande     Ibrahim Jawondo     Lithium    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Okoolowo     Kunle Akogun     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Lanwa     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Mustapha Akanbi     A.O. Belgore     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Bureau Of Lands     Saka Adeyemo     FERMA     Hassan Taiye Salam     Sarah Alade     Balogun-Ojomu     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Sarkin Malamai     Amasa     General Hospital     Elese Of Igbaja     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Femi Oladiji     Yusuf Ali     Ijagbo Health Centre     NNPP     ER-KANG Mining     Kwara Liberation Group     NTA Ilorin     New Nigeria People’s Party     IHS     Magaji Nda     Alore     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Lai Gobir     ASMAU PLAZA     Bolaji Abdullahi     ANCOPPS     Tanke     Olatunde Michaels     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Garba Ayodele Wahab     New Model Police Station     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Saba Mamman Daniel     Zaratu Umar     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Ilorin Like-Minds     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Kwara NIPR     Oniyangi     Omotosho     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Saidu Kawu     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Doyin Agbamu     Kwara Restoration Project     Sam Okaula     Salami Adekunle     Segun Adeniyi     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Laduba     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Isiaka Alikinla     Saliu Tunde Bello     Oloyede     Saheed Akinwumi     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Kumbi Titilope