Osun state government has disclosed that plans have been concluded to deport some Northerners who sneaked into the state from Zamfara.
This step, was a precautionary measure to contain community transmission of the dreadful Coronavirus ravaging the country and the world at large.
The Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, in a statement made available to newsmen, Friday, disclosed this.
The government stated that it was following presidential directive that banned all interstate travels and movement, stressing that the state’s boundaries are currently shut.
Egbemode who disclosed that the Osun government recognises the right of every Nigerian to live anywhere within the country but will however act within legal and moral boundaries by returning the illegal miners to their last known addresses.
She noted that the state government “believes in the unity of the nation but will not hesitate to take actions against those who breach its boundaries and try to jeopardise the health of its people.”
She also disclosed that “the state has shown highest regards to the respective state governments of the concerned people by attempting to return them to their places rather than prosecuting them under the State’s Emergency Regulation.
“Every state in the country is upscaling its security measures in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, and other vices. Zamfara State government, a few days back, arrested some suspected illegal miners in the state,” she said.
“If ‘alleged’ illegal miners are abhorred in Zamfara, why then should the state of Osun be crucified for being safety conscious?”
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