Covid-19 2nd Wave: Umahi restricts religious gathering to 2 hours

By Ultimatenewsnigeria

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has directed that all Religious Worship centers must be restricted to a maximum period of two hours.

Umahi who announced this in Abakaliki during a Press briefing said the decision followed the second wave of the Corona Virus pandemic in the country.

He noted that apart from the restriction of religious worship, all large gathering are also banned in the state.

The  Governor who also directed the State Deputy Governor, Kelechi Igwe and the State COVID-19 team to ensure massive sensitization and public enlightenment campaign to get the people to embrace the COVID-19 protocols said this would help the state not to record any case in the second wave of the pandemic.

According to the Governor; “We must go back to observe all the protocols of Covid 19 enunciated by the Presidential Taskforce. I have directed that Church Services should not last more than 2 hours. I have also directed that we should step up our testing before the end of January”.

“We must have to accomplished the target of the Presidential Taskforce by testing atleast 450 persons per Local Government . I have suspended large gathering of people in Ebonyi State. We have returned to the wearing of facemasks in all public places and in our homes”.

“During this Christmas, I am appealing that we curtail our movements. The initial night of praise will no longer hold in the state, the usual end of year party will not hold rather we are not aggregated so that we have smaller gathering that we can control”. he said.

On the release of the Kankara Boys Science School, Kastina State abducted by gunmen,  Umahi commended President Muhammadu Buhari, Security Chiefs and the National Security Adviser to the President for ensuring the release of the schools boy and reuniting them to their families.

He insisted that the country is going through challenging time adding that rather than criticise Mr. President and the Security Chiefs, we should commend them for the efforts and achievements so far made.

Governor Umahi also insisted that the South East geopolitical zone has remain the safest in the area of security and described as laughable the claim by the Leader of indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that he has set up a security outfit to secure the zone.


He commended the South East Governor for their committment towards ensuring the security of lives and properties of its citizens and urge them to ignore all the side distractions being propagated by the IPOB leader.

The governor later performed the official handing over  of a 300 bed capacity isolation center built by the state government to the Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital, AE FETHA 2. Ends.