The Ogun State Government has eased the lockdown order
pronounced on the state, since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic
to combat the spread of the disease from Monday to Friday.
This was contained in the address of the State Governor, Prince
Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, while updating the efforts of his
administration in containing the virus.
The governor noted that the state had been on lockdown for over
eight weeks, with the government providing three days of window
relaxation in a week.
He, however, said that the state would be on lockdown on
Saturday and Sunday only till further notice.
The governor noted that members of the public would now go out
from Monday to Friday.
The governor said: “It is now over 8 weeks since the President
directed the lockdown of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;
Lagos and Ogun States. You will recall that following this
Presidential directive, we made a request to the President, which
he graciously granted, that the commencement of the lockdown in our
State should be delayed by one week.
“This was to enable the residents stock up for the period of the
lockdown and make other preparations. It was to also allow the
state to procure and finalise the logistics of distribution of
palliative items to cushion the effect of the lockdown on our
citizens.
” In addition, Ogun State was the only location that from the
onset provided three days of windows of relaxation of the lockdown
in a week i.e. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The initial window was
from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm. and it was later eased to 7.00 am to
5.00pm ahead of the daily curfew starting from 8:00 pm to 6:00 am
as announced by the President.
“These variations and relaxation in the implementation of the
lockdown in Ogun State were informed by our peculiarity and
geography and the need of our people to have windows to conduct
essential economic activities. Besides, as the industrial capital
of the nation with the largest number of industries, we also
factored in the need not to totally grind down the operations of
the industries, in order not to jeopardize the ability of the
economy to rebound after the pandemic.
“This second phase has two major elements of further relaxation
of the restrictions and expansion in the number of days. In
contrast to the current three days of Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
this new phase opens up all the five working days in the week i.e
Monday to Friday, with only Saturday and Sunday as lockdown days.
In addition, there will be no time restriction from Monday to
Friday, with the exception of the curfew period from 8.00 pm or as
may be directed by the President.”
He advised the people of the state to continue adhering to the
guidelines of preventing the spread of the virus saying, ” let no
one make a mistake COVID- 19 is neither over nor the curve of the
spread flattened. From all available data and simulations, we are
yet to reach our peak, consequently the further easing of the
lockdown is not a license to believe the worst is over.”
The governor added that restriction on interstate order still
effective.
The Ogun State Government has eased the lockdown order
pronounced on the state, since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic
to combat the spread of the disease from Monday to Friday.
This was contained in the address of the State Governor, Prince
Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, while updating the efforts of his
administration in containing the virus.
The governor noted that the state had been on lockdown for over
eight weeks, with the government providing three days of window
relaxation in a week.
He, however, said that the state would be on lockdown on
Saturday and Sunday only till further notice.
The governor noted that members of the public would now go out
from Monday to Friday.
The governor said: “It is now over 8 weeks since the President
directed the lockdown of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;
Lagos and Ogun States. You will recall that following this
Presidential directive, we made a request to the President, which
he graciously granted, that the commencement of the lockdown in our
State should be delayed by one week.
“This was to enable the residents stock up for the period of the
lockdown and make other preparations. It was to also allow the
state to procure and finalise the logistics of distribution of
palliative items to cushion the effect of the lockdown on our
citizens.
” In addition, Ogun State was the only location that from the
onset provided three days of windows of relaxation of the lockdown
in a week i.e. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The initial window was
from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm. and it was later eased to 7.00 am to
5.00pm ahead of the daily curfew starting from 8:00 pm to 6:00 am
as announced by the President.
“These variations and relaxation in the implementation of the
lockdown in Ogun State were informed by our peculiarity and
geography and the need of our people to have windows to conduct
essential economic activities. Besides, as the industrial capital
of the nation with the largest number of industries, we also
factored in the need not to totally grind down the operations of
the industries, in order not to jeopardize the ability of the
economy to rebound after the pandemic.
“This second phase has two major elements of further relaxation
of the restrictions and expansion in the number of days. In
contrast to the current three days of Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
this new phase opens up all the five working days in the week i.e
Monday to Friday, with only Saturday and Sunday as lockdown days.
In addition, there will be no time restriction from Monday to
Friday, with the exception of the curfew period from 8.00 pm or as
may be directed by the President.”
He advised the people of the state to continue adhering to the
guidelines of preventing the spread of the virus saying, ” let no
one make a mistake COVID- 19 is neither over nor the curve of the
spread flattened. From all available data and simulations, we are
yet to reach our peak, consequently the further easing of the
lockdown is not a license to believe the worst is over.”
The governor added that restriction on interstate order still
effective.