COVID-19: We Would Greatly Deal With Offenders, Police Vows

Ogun State Police Command says it will arrest and prosecute anybody or group that violate restrictions and bans placed on large gatherings.

The ban was imposed on churches, mosques, restaurants, cinemas, sports arenas and other such large gatherings, as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID – 19 in the country.

The Ogun Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, urged people of the state to desist from such large as perpetrators will be arrested and prosecuted.

Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), added that the Command’s Tactical Squad, Divisional Police Officers and Area Commanders have been mandated to enforce the directive over COVID – 19

He said: “In view of the outbreak of coronavirus also known as COVID -19 which has been declared by World Health Organization as pandemic and the subsequent order by the Federal and Ogun state governments banning all form of social and religious gathering, the Ogun state police command wishes to inform the general public of its readiness to embark on full enforcement of the banning order.