Plateau state Governor Simon Lalong Monday, assured that security agencies will continue to deal with religious leaders and other defaulters of restriction order put in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the state.
He said government has put up measures for the good interest of the people so that they can be prevented from getting infected with the virus.
Lalong made the statements at a stakeholders meeting with members of the state house of assembly and leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, held at Government House little rayfield.
He said: “It is because of the interest of the people that we took those decisions, you will see on WhatsApp or Facebook that some people are saying there was no compliance, is not that we have leaved them, we have handed all of them to security agencies, so security agencies are dealing with cases like that.”
He said religious leaders that violated the orders are being interrogated by the security agencies.
“Is not only one aspect, we have cases from the church we have some pastors that refused to complied and then some Islamic clerics that said they are not complying. I think the securities have taken them to order, we are not joking with things,” he cautioned.
Lalong said the state will soon get a centre for the testing of COVID-19 disease soon.
He added that as chairman of the State COVID-19 Emergency Response Task Force, “we are dealing with an abnormal situation and so we need to take drastic measures in order to protect the lives of the citizens.”
“Thankfully, there is no recorded case yet and we pray that it remains so. However, we must work hard to keep things this way.”
