Many travelers heading to Lagos and other parts of the country from different departure motor parks in the eastern parts of Nigeria were turned back Sunday by security officers and other law enforcement agents on approaching the Onitsha head bridge, a border link between Anambra and Delta states.
The move is not unconnected with the spreading of the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria with 97 recorded cases according the latest figures on the tweeter handle of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
A student of Imo State University who was returning to Lagos on instructions from his parents as measures to check the pandemic told BusinessDay that, the 14-seater mini commercial bus he was traveling with from Owerri was forced to turned with other vehicles on approaching the Onitsha head bridge.
Yesterday in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the DSS and other security agencies locked down a hotel and its 41 guests and workers over suspected case of coronavirus involving a guest that lodged in the hotel upon return from abroad.
The man was said to have returned from overseas about two weeks ago and visited the Fancy Hotel, Umuguma, located at the World Bank before traveling to Abuja where a test was conducted on him and it was COVID-19 positive. It is not yet clear if the federal government has banned interstate travels.
MIKE OCHONMA
