Adedokun Waliyu 
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has requested neighborhood government authorities to flagellate residents of the state discovered moving around in broad daylight without wearing face cover.
Talking at a partners meeting on Wednesday, in Abakaliki, the state capital, Umahi apparently said that it was significant for occupants to utilize face veils to end the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Then, Ebonyi has not recorded any instance of COVID-19 to date.
Said he: “Let me caution again that no face cover in Ebonyi State, no open development.
“On the off chance that you don’t have a face cover and you are out, I am coordinating the neighborhood government administrators to utilize their men to incur the base consistence which is the stick – the stick.
“No face cover, you will pull in stick, it doesn’t make a difference what your identity is. On the off chance that you are a major man and you are coming outside and you don’t have a face cover, you will confront inconvenience and the law is clear about that.
“We have additionally underscored, indeed, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) has likewise cautioned that the request for blocking must be kept up.
“The police must square the primary purpose of the fringe, the military must give a protected separation and afterward square, at that point the other security organizations will presently square and afterward from that point forward, it is currently the local watch”.
On Wednesday, Umahi had banished two journalists from covering state capacities for “composing awful reports about the state”.
