RIVERS LOCKS DOWN BONNY LGA AND ONNE COMMUNITY

*Residents of the State to prepare for statewide lockdown if infections continue to increase unabated

Rivers State Government has imposed a total lockdown of Bonny Local Government Area and Onne Community in Eleme Local Government Areas with effect from Sunday, June 21, 2020 to check the spread of coronavirus in the State.

Consequently, all residents of Bonny Local Government and Onne community, except those on essential services and duly exempted must stay at home.

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike announced this today in a state-wide broadcast.

"Pursuant to the fundamental objective of stopping the spread of coronavirus, we have reviewed the situation in Bonny Island and Onne Communities and come to the conclusion that a total lockdown is necessary at this time to shut down the continuing spread of the virus in these communities.

"By this measure, all shops, offices and business places must remain closed.

"All gatherings, including religious, burial and wedding activities are prohibited. All entry and exit into the two communities, except those on essential services and duly permitted, are also banned.

"Security agencies have been directed to enforce the lockdown by arresting and prosecuting anyone who dares to disobey these directives, " he said.

The Governor noted that with a total of 866 positive cases out of 2572 tested samples, the State is gradually becoming the next epicenter of the virus in the South-south region of the country.

He said that within this period, the state also recorded 30 deaths, including prominent persons while 356 persons recovered and were discharged from Treatment Centres.

According to the Governor, only today the state recorded 127 new cases leaving the Isolation and Treatment Centres overwhelmed.

As the number of new cases and deaths continue to increase, the Governor said there is no more denying that coronavirus is both dangerous and deadly.

"We cannot also deny that the transmission of the virus in our state is currently on a steep upward trend. This being so, we must all brace up to the reality of having new infections and a couple of deaths in the coming weeks and months.

"When we recognised that effective early response was key to preventing the virus from progressing deep, we introduced drastic measures to protect our citizens.

"Unfortunately, some people deliberately twisted our intentions, maligned our timely measures and exploited the attendant temporary hardship on our people to further their selfish political drives.

"Today, I am sure with the daily worrisome number of new infections and the fear of possible calamitous community transmission, everyone is now seeing the needless politicization of the fight against coronavirus.

"Nevertheless, we are encouraged by the fact that the virus can effectively be stopped from spreading further, if only we all submit to the prescribed guidelines on social distancing as a matter of strict responsibility, he stated.

Governor Wike regretted the nonchalant attitude of those who blatantly violate the rights of people to good health and public safety by refusing to comply with established guidelines.

He therefore appealed to all residents and visitors to treat the spread of coronavirus with all seriousness by
*staying at home as much as possible
*avoiding contacts with others when outside
*avoiding gathering in groups
*regularly washing hands; and
*regularly wearing face masks in public places, including transport mediums.

The Governor assured that government would continue to collaborate with well-meaning partners to stop the continuing spread of coronavirus.

He stated that this is not a time to play politics and called on residents to accept individual responsibility to reduce the risk of transmission and protect our people.

The Governor warned that residents of the State should be prepared for a statewide lockdown if the number of new infections continue to increase unabated.

Paulinus Nsirim
Commissioner for Information and Communications

June 20, 2020

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This is serious.

PDP controlled States using this pandemic as a golden opportunity to loot.

ok. Emperor wike wicked

Does lockdown still exist?

I saw it coming..corona in bonny is something else

good...with the way rivers is increasing eeh, wike fit lockdown the whole rivers again oo.. going by this lockdown in those two places...it seems they have been an increase in today's cases after testing...ncdc we de wait una updates

Damn!

Good, but provide adequate pallliatives for the people that needs it

Very serious

We tried to prevent this sudden hike, they thought they knew better.

Y

Clown!!

But obaseki breached the inter state lockdown to visit you. Bloody hypocrites

Covid is real

RapistOnBail:
I’m yet to come in contact with anyone with the Covid419

Fvck WHO.

be careful bro, i have had discussion with two people who had it

Suddenly locking down people without any prior notice is inhumane

lordm:
be careful bro, i have had discussion with two people who had it

Are they dead yet?

The lockdown man

Which PHED??

Arrest that man

Very bad

paulolee:
good

For how long?Piou will eat,pay their rent,children school fees rtc.U think landlord Dey do charity with their property?

Well at least there's a governor who's in line with reality. It's not just by announcing lockdown though, there needs to be clear strategy for it to work.

RapistOnBail:
I’m yet to come in contact with anyone with the Covid419

Fvck WHO.

people with covid don't know you too

From mr projects to mr lockdown

Interesting, each time I make up my mind to travel to Rivers state during this pandemic, that is when the governor will decide to impose a partial lock down in some areas of the state. Na wa oh.

WhistleBIower:
PDP controlled States using this pandemic as a golden opportunity to loot.

Brother, I think it's high time we dropped politics and denial.

We all must begin to take responsibility and obey government guidelines.

COVID-19 does not care to know what PDP or APC is.....

By the way, isn't Lagos State an APC state? What's the current stats there?

OK. but where did Obaseki pass?So in the spirit of your emperor-ship,you just feel you can make rules and break them. you lock people up for days,you starve them, then you release them to go shopping and banking in rush hour mode. How will the virus not spread? You should come to Calabar and take lessons from Gov. Ayade. seriously you need to be schooled.

SirWarlock:
people with covid don't know you too

Atleast we are all linked one way or another. So there should be higher possibility of the virus spreading rapidly. If there was a virus, I wouldn’t object to that,

But a deadly virus?? Hell no!