Consequently, we have decided on the extreme measure of placing the entire Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt City Local Government Areas under a 24 hours total lockdown from Thursday 7th May 2020 until further notice.

On no account should there be any vehicular movements or gathering of more than two persons in these Local Government Areas, except those on essential services with appropriate authorization;

All shops, trading or business activities, including currency exchange, in these Local Government Areas must also remain closed until further notice.

All Landlords are advised to ensure that no shop or trading activity is opened or carried out in or around their premises or risk the confiscation of their property by the Government.

Any person, group or institution that violates the lockdown and curfew in these Local Government Areas will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

https://twitter.com/GovWike/status/1257309570382180352?s=19
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A better time to get movies for the lockdown,check my signature

Wike the governor I respected most in Nigeria

Hope this is not true.... pls ooo

PART B

Given the threat posed to the State by oil and gas company workers, it has reviewed all entry waivers and permits earlier granted to Oil and Gas Companies .

The Rivers State Government declared:

"(i) from now on, requests for waivers and entry permits from oil and gas companies will be considered on a case by case basis;

(ii) all inward-bound vehicles and flights into Rivers State from oil and gas companies with workers for crew change or other essential operations must first submit details of their manifests to the State’s taskforce on COVID-19 for proper vetting of their virus status before they can be allowed to enter the State;

"(iii) all operators of chartered flights into Rivers State for oil and gas operations, especially Bristow and Caverton Helicopters, should please comply with this directive and refrain from jeopardizing the lives of our people for the sake of making profits.

This Government is focused and therefore will not allow itself to be distracted on its battle against COVID-19.

However, we will neither tolerate nor hesitate to deal anyone who dares to fabricate lies to rubbish the hard work and sacrifice we are making to save the lives in our State just to advance parochial partisan interests.

I wish to reiterate that the hard choices we have to make as a Government and as a people over the COVID-19 pandemic are all premised on upholding the sanctity of human life.

As a Government, we cannot abdicate this compelling responsibility and abandon our people to chances in the midst of this much dreaded and ravaging pandemic.

The latest of these positive cases was the 14th case that was flown in to Port Harcourt by Bristow Helicopters from an offshore oilfield facility in Akwa Ibom State on the 29th of April 2020.

These positive cases have shown and confirmed our fears that unvetted entry of Oil and Gas workers from Lagos, Abuja and elsewhere remains a potential source for the importation and spread of COVID-19 in our State.

We have also observed with disappointment the persistent disobedience to the State Government’s lawful orders and or directives on COVID-19 by a number of communities and residents, especially in Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt City Local Government Areas despite repeated warning.

On the whole, we can all see that COVID-19 cases confirmed across the country are growing in numbers, meaning that the situation in our State, although still relatively low, can change for the worse, if we relax our measures or become complacent.

https://twitter.com/GovWike/status/1257316051240382472?s=19

PART C
In view of the foregoing, Government has resolved to impose additional measures by the Executive Order, I have just signed, which are targeted at reinforcing our efforts toward stopping the spread of the virus in the State, as follows:

"(i) All residents must wear face masks before stepping out of their homes to the public space;

(ii) The operations of all private motor parks, taxi ranks and loading bays throughout the State is hereby prohibited;

(iii) No commercial taxi driver should carry more than three passengers in his vehicles per trip;

(iv) No commercial bus driver should carry more than 40 per cent of full capacity of his vehicle;

(v) All tricycles (Keke NAPEP) must limit their passengers to two persons only;

(vi) No private vehicle should carry more than three persons in the car;

(vii) All drivers, persons or passengers in commercial and private vehicles, including tricycles, must wear face masks and observe the use of sanitizers;

(viii) All hotels, guest houses and beer parlours must remain closed;

(ix) A task force has been set-up to:

(a) arrest and prosecute any person without wearing face masks in public places or inside vehicles;

(b) impound and auction any vehicle with persons or passengers without wearing facemasks;

(c) arrest and prosecute any driver loading or off-loading passengers at any private motor-park, taxi rank or loading bay;

(d) impound and auction any vehicle loading or off-loading passengers at any private park, taxi rank or loading bay; and

(e) confiscate and auction any hotel and guest houses operating in defiance of the ban."

(f) Government will give N100,000.00 to any whistle blower who gives out relevant information leading to the arrest and prosecution of any person, hotelier or motorist that violates these directives.

All hoteliers must provide the State Task Force on COVID-19 with the manifest of those already lodged in their hotels before the coming into effect of this directive.

While the State Government is battling the importation of this virus, the greatest threat to people's lives is posed not from outsiders but by those residents who are refusing to comply with the established directives and change their behaviour to conform to the new experience.

Nonsense... This man lacks idea . What exactly is his plans ? You lockdown without palliatives for the people, you aren't even testing enough people , not even trying to fumigate public places , giving lockdown till further notice !! Can you imagine not even two weeks , further notice . Just shouting lockdown left and right . He's the worst governor ever in rivers state

are we not on lock down already?

Woke is a tyrant

And what is the plan for the people you are locking down

This ikwerre Drunkard wants to keep locking Rivers state for his selfish interest without any palliatives given & testing done.
He should continue. Na him go tire.

princessConfy:
Hope this is not true.... pls ooo

is true, hope u don stalk up

sanemind2:
is true, hope u don stalk up

not yet

At the onset he made sense, but now he is becoming too strict and lack ideas on handling this
Sanwo Olu= intelligent, civil and innovative
Wike= Ras, rash and harsh

F

So alone in my car,I should wear nose mask. Doesn't make sense

Wike is a noisemaker.

OP, please modify your heading to read ENTIRE PORT HARCOURT METROPOLIS

frankmoney:
Nonsense... This man lacks idea . What exactly is his plans ? You lockdown without palliatives for the people, you aren't even testing enough people , not even trying to fumigate public places , giving lockdown till further notice !! Can you imagine not even two weeks , further notice . Just shouting lockdown left and right . He's the worst governor ever in rivers state

did buhari give us any palliative for 5 weeks of lockdown? So don't worry yourself Wike will do something for his people

I don't understand how a state Government would impose a 24 hours curfew till further notice without adequate measures put in place. Some of my friends fled this country immediately after school in the name of MSC. I stayed back to get a job. Na me jonze dey sleep on top bicycle as my mates dey japa

Jostoman:
did buhari give us any palliative for 5 weeks of lockdown? So don't worry yourself Wike will do something for his people

wetin concern me and buhari ? Wike isn't doing anything . No plan nothing . Just nonsense policies here and there

Jostoman:
did buhari give us any palliative for 5 weeks of lockdown? So don't worry yourself Wike will do something for his people

To you everything is politics, if you live in River State,you will understand how unpopular these his actions are.

This wike is just killing river state