Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state Wednesday imposed 10hrs curfew on all entry points of the state.
Umahi said the curfew will be from 8pm to 6am.
This is following the continues insecurity occurrences ravaging the state recently.
The Governor also ordered all native doctors and traditional medicine dealers in the state to register with the internal security and the health ministries with seven days.
Umahi disclosed this while briefing Journalists on the outcome of the security meeting held in his office at the Ocho Udo city,Abakaliki.
He however gave the security agencies 72 hours to fish out all criminal element in the state, especially as he noted that it was not members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)or the Eastern security Network (ESN) that killed those security officers killed on Monday and Tuesday at Afikpo North and Ezza South local government areas of the state.
He said, “we have agreed that all native doctors in the state and traditional medicine dealers must within seven days today register with the Commissioner for Border Peace, with the Commissioner for health and with the CP. There will be executive order to this event and anyone that is caught doing otherwise will be arrested and will be prosecuted.
“We are aware that there are some killings over the weekend; a policeman was killed, two army men were killed and I think one civilian and their killers are pure bandits. They do these killing and put it in social media that they are members of IPOB or ESN. Without standing for either IPOB or ESN, but they continue to deny that they are not into violence but for me, criminality is criminality and I have directed security agencies to crackdown 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, they must do that.
“We agreed that there is rampant of fake news in Ebonyi state. Like today, somebody posted that herdsmen are in Ebonyi and they are killing people and schools started closing down, students and pupils started running helter scalter, is that what we will continue to tolerate? And so, I have directed whether you are in opposition, whether you are in agreement, whatever thing you are, you should be tracked down so that you should be going to court to prove whatever thing you are putting.
“We have directed that all wake keep in the state must end by 6:pm and the local government Chairmen, security agents and Ebubeagu must enforce this. All social activities must end by 6:pm. When you defy this order, you will pay a minimum of N1million because a lot hoodlum activities happen during this week keep going into the night”.
