Insecurity: Umahi imposes curfew on Ebonyi border areas,..... orders compulsory registration of native doctors

Insecurity: Umahi imposes curfew on Ebonyi border areas,
..... orders compulsory registration of native doctors


By David Uka

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has imposed a curfew  from 8 pm to 6 am on all exit and entrance points to Ebonyi State

Gov Umahi who announced this while briefing journalists after the State security council meeting in Abakaliki
also banned all social events such as wake keep and nightclubbing from 6 pm, 

He directed  local government chairmen, security agencies and Ebube-Agu to enforce the order warning defaulters will be fined N1m.

He ordered compulsory data collection of all the traditional medicine practitioners in Ebonyi State.

He also ordered all native doctors to register with security agencies in the state warning that violators to the directive will be prosecuted.

"effective from today, we are placing curfew on all exit and entrance points to Ebonyi State. All the border entrance, going in and coming out from 8pm to 6am will be enforced".

“Nobody will be allowed to come inside the state or go out of the state within this period. I’m directing the local government chairmen, security agencies and Ebube-Agu to enforce it. And anybody found violating this, is taking a risk. Movement will be allowed within the town".

"We have directed that all wake keep in the state must end by 6pm and the local government Chairmen, the security agencies and Ebube-Agu must enforce it. In fact, all social activities must end by 6pm and if you are caught doing otherwise, you will be made to pay a minimum of N1m. Because a lot of criminal activities happen when we allow wake keep going into the night".

On the recent killings on security agencies in the state, Umahi exonerated members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Eastern Security Network from the attack and described the incidence as pure bandits.

"We are aware there are some killings over the weekend, where a policeman, two army men and one civilian were killed and these people are pure bandits. They do these killings and put it on the social media that they are members of IPOB or ESN. Without standing for either IPOB or ESN that they have continued to deny that they are not into violence".

“For me, criminality is criminality and I have directed the security agencies to crack down on all criminal activities in the state. And for those who did the killings, the security agencies must bring them to book within 72 hours".

Umahi who lament about the growing trend of people dishing out fake news using the social media, warned that the state would no longer tolerate it, disclosing that the council had directed the security agencies to crack down on anyone found dishing out fake news for prosecution.

On the recent attack against Ngbo natives in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state,  Governor Umahi said, it has been discovered that Agila people from Benue state allegedly hired herdsmen mercenaries that did the killing in Ngbo.

"We can now confirm as a state that Agila people in Benue state hired the herdsmen mercenaries that came and did the killings in Ngbo. That is one killing that won’t happen again. We are determined to protect our people". He said.

The governor  who unveiled the Ebube-Agu South East Security of Ebonyi State Chapter also directed the union of commercial motorcyclists to form their vigilante group or wait to risk being ban .