Police authorities in Lagos on Thursday arrested 202 persons for violating the stay at home order to curb the spread of coronavirus.
“The suspects were arrested playing football on major streets and having group exercise in large number, which negate the principles of social distancing,” police spokesman in Lagos Bala Elkana said in a statement. Elkana said the violators were arrested at Iju, Sabo, Ikeja, Itire, Ikotun, Ogudu, Akinpelu, Maroko, Alapere, Anthony, Orile, Owode Onirin and Ilemba Hausa areas,
They were subsequently arraigned in Lagos State Special Offences Court on one count charge of violating the social distancing directives, Elkana said.Elkana said the suspects were found guilty as charged and ordered to pay ten thousand naira each as fines. “They are also sentenced to two hours community service, which was supervised by officials of social welfare,” he added.Popular nollywood Funke Akindele Bello and her husband Abdulrasheed Bello was on Monday convicted for hosting a birthday party.A lockdown was imposed in Lagos, the neighbouring state of Ogun and the capital, Abuja, by President Muhammadu Buhari last week in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Stiff-neck
What about the Cyclists?
Give them last warning
Social distance arrest
Wasted effort arrest.
Pls isolate these ones in a psychiatrist hospital with food once a day for 21 days. They're empty headed and seriously need sense.
Wow....at least, these guys don escape Hungervirus. Free Feeding for them
Release them,they are not the cause of the what is happening
Person wey get leg and title do am, dem pass verdict. We dey wait their verdicts too.
10k as usual 😏
They don enter and to comot e no easy👌
Make them go jog inside prison na
It don happen🤧
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