Amid widespread complaint among citizens that certain security personnel were taking advantage of COVID-19 restrictions to unduly extort the people, the Delta State Government yesterday said that it was relaxing the dusk to dawn curfew imposed on the state in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“Delta State Government has adjusted the curfew earlier imposed in the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic from the earlier period of 7:00p.m. to 6:00a.m. to a new period of 10:00p.m. to 5:30a.m.,” the Secretary to the State Government , Mr. Chiedu Ebie, said in a statement in Asaba on Thursday. “Furthermore, Government has approved the resumption of normal trading activities in all markets across the 25 local government areas of the state.
The governor’s aide, while calling for united prayer and action, urged the citizens to complement government’s concerted efforts by taking individual and collective responsibility for obeying executive order by ensuring that measures put in place to check and mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 are observed as a patriotic duty.