The Anambra State government has apprehended a man with recent travel history to Lagos State as the state continues to enforce border closure over the Coronavirus pandemic.
Chukwuma, a truck driver and indigene of Anambra state, travelled from Lagos through Anambra and then to Enugu where he parked the truck overnight on Wednesday.
He was said to have boarded a commercial vehicle from Enugu to the border community from where he wanted to sneak himself into Anambra State on foot.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that although the Anambra government has relaxed lockdown on movement within the state, all borders with her neighbouring states have remained closed.
Dr Christian Madubuko, the commissioner for transport, who led the task force on enforcement of border closure on a routine tour of the border accosted the truck driver.
Madubuko told journalists that Chukwuma defied all inter-state boundary security checks from Lagos and was at the point of entering Anambra again from Enugu state when he was caught.
“I have notified the state commissioner for health about this man. We will only release him if the commissioner for health examines him and certifies him free, else, we may have to quarantine him for 14 days,” he commissioner states.
The truck driver said he was on his way to give his mother some money before he was apprehended. He insisted that he wasn’t sick and that he had taken all precautionary measures.
“I was also made to wash my hands with water and soap at all the borders while I was coming from Lagos,” he says.
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