Wike imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew in ALL LGAs in Rivers

By our reporter| River State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the 23 LGAs of the state with immediate effect.

Thursday’s decision is coming on the heels of Wednesday’s night curfew in all the state’s land borders by Wike.

The governor who made the declaration in a statewide broadcast, said the decision was taken after an exhaustive deliberation by the state security council at the government house in Port Harcourt.

In a statement by Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant to the governor on media, Wike said the council decided to review the present security situation, saying there are possibilities of further deadly attacks on hard and soft targets across the state.

“Accordingly, the state security council has, today, after exhaustive deliberation, decided and advised that a state-wide curfew on human and vehicular movements be imposed as part of additional measures to prevent the faceless criminals from unleashing their deadly actions,” Wike was quoted to have said.

“Consequently, a night curfew is hereby imposed on the entire 23 local government areas of the state, prohibiting any human and/or vehicular movement within or any part of the state from 10pm to 6am from today, 29th April, 2021 until further notice.”

According to the governor, the measure is to secure the state and guarantee the protection of lives and property.

He urged everyone in the state to be vigilant and promptly report every suspicious movement in their neighbourhoods to the security agencies for immediate action.