BREAKING : Kwara Govt extends total lockdown by 14 days

The Kwara state governor, Mall. Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, has announced the extension of the lockdown of the state by another 14 days to flatten the curve of transmission of the virus 

 Gov Abdulrahman made this disclosure shortly after flagging off the enumeration exercise for the transporters at Government Secondary School Maraba.

According to him, the lockdown is in accordance with the position of the Federal Government and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. 

He said the lockdown for another two weeks is to reduce the number of cases. As you can see, Kano is going up, Lagos is going up. Even in Kwara, we have two more new cases. So, there is need for boundaries to lockdown. Essentially, each state has different policies on lockdown but we want to ensure that people are not moved across boundaries to transmit the virus.

Abdulrahman said the internal restrictions of vehicular movements in the state remain in force while the government steps up measures to gradually lift the restrictions and rejuvenate the economy, including mandatory use of face masks which would soon be distributed.