Federal Government has expressed concern over the dangers involved in the continued disregard of the eased lockdown guidelines by Nigerians.
The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known while speaking at the daily briefing on Wednesday.
On April 27, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the easing of the lockdown starting from Monday, May 4 and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew nationwide.
However, some Nigerians have since been seen in videos and photos overcrowding banks and markets, which is in violation of the ease lockdown guidelines.
Speaking on the danger of the violation, Mustapha said it sees danger ahead for the country, stating that;
The overall assessment of compliance with the measures and outcomes of modelling we have developed, point in the direction of danger ahead. We therefore need personal discipline, increased awareness and enforcement.
Mustapha stressed that;
I want to reiterate the fact that our individual and collective safety is in our hands and I re-echo my call and appeal to Nigerians to demonstrate our duty to ourselves and loved ones by minimising the risk of getting infected by the virus.
He implored every Nigerian, especially in the corporate sector to adhere to laid down rules for the eased lockdown, in order to check the spread of coronavirus.
In other news, Benue State Action Committee on COVID-19 on Wednesday evening intercepted a vehicle conveying the corpse of one Peter Aiv Kogi who died of coronavirus in Kano.
The deceased, according to reprots, was being taken to Konshisha local government area of Benue state for burial.
When the committee was alerted on the development, a roadblock was quickly mounted at Jato, near Aliade where the vehicle carrying the body of the COVID-19 victim was intercepted.
Four persons found in the vehicle have immediately been quarantined.
