"Covid-19 Is A Drain To Any State, Not A Benefit"- Ekiti Govt. Declares After Generating Over N2M From Lockdown Violators

Covid-19 Is A Drain To Any State, Not A Benefit: Ekiti Govt. Declares After Generating Over N2M From Lockdown Violators

Abodurin Taofiq, Ilorin

The Ekiti State Government has generated a sum of N2 million from court fines imposed on over 100 individuals who defied government’s directives since the beginning of lockdown in the state.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-kolade, made this disclosure in Ado Ekiti  today while giving an update on the status of the pandemic in Ekiti, said the Covid-19 Molecular Laboratory would be commissioned on Monday, June 1.

The commissioner dissabused the minds of the people who believe that  cases of Covid 19 have become a financial gain to the state, clarifying that “it is a financial drain to any state, not a benefit”.

The Director General, Office of Transformation, Strategy and Delivery, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, said security is still tight at the border towns and the state has not recorded serious incursion through the borders in recent time.

Aluko stated that  all the quanratined centres in all the 16 Local Governments areas are currently empty, corroborated the fact that the borders were well secured.

Also speaking,the Commissioner for Environment, Hon Gbenga Agbeyo, said the government has undertaken the fumigation of all major towns across the three Senatorial districts in the state to ward off Covid 19 spread .