Governor Okezie Victor Ikpeazu of Abia state has directed the ministry of Homeland Security to ensure a certain family members in Umuahia South LGA of the state, (Community’s name withheld) are immediately quarantined for allegedly sneaking in their relative who died of COVID-19 in Kano state and burying same unprotected.
Abia Governent gave this charge in a press statement signed by Chief John Okiyi Kalu, the Commissioner for Information, insisting that everyone in the compound of the affected family, alongside the mourners and visitors must be iquarantined, adding “pending when the medical rapid response team has fully collected and tested samples of all those involved including their visitors/mourners.”
The release read in part:
Abia State Government has received multiple intelligence and confirmation of certain persons and families of Abia origin currently residing in states with rising cases of COVID-19 planning to bring home corpses of family members suspected to have died from the virus for burial in our communities in total violation of the existing ban on inter-state movement and without notification or approval from relevant authorities in the state.
The most worrisome case is that of a family that recently sneaked into the state during the weekend with the corpse of their father who allegedly died of COVID-19 in Kano and was ferried to a community in Umuahia South LGA where unsuspecting citizens have been going to mourn with them unprotected.
Ikpeazu warned against all forms of inter state movements, insisting that “whoever enters our state during this period of ban on inter state movement is in breach of state and federal regulations and will have themselves to blame as the law will be applied to the fullest in order to protect the people of Abia State.
All village heads, traditional rulers and community leaders must take responsibility to stop and/or report any person or group of persons that enters their community from outside the state within this period or face necessary sanctions. On no account should any corpse from outside the state be brought into any community for burial or preservation in a mortuary without the written approval of the state or local government concerned.
“Mortuaries in the state are also not permitted to receive such corpses without obtaining permit from relevant local or state authorities to avoid immediate sanctions including closure of the facility. The morgue operators should also endeavor to report families with such corpses to the relevant authorities.”
Furthermore, the Governor has directed the enforcement team of the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 to impound all commercial inter-state vehicles operating within this period and quarantine both the drivers and passengers at the nearest general hospital for a minimum period of 21 days.
Meanwhile, the Governor who advised all Abia citizens to remain transfixed at wherever they are up until the pandemic ceased, implored the people not to see the partial relaxation of the lockdown in the state as an excuse to lower their guards, noting, :?”as we will not hesitate to do whatever is needful, including reimposing full lockdown in the state, to protect the majority of our people from being infected with COVID-19.
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