Two Dangote trucks with twenty-six Northern Youths hidden in their buckets were at the early hours of today intercepted by the Abia State and Ikwuano Local government area joint security team on Covid-19 few poles from Abia-Akwa Ibom borders.
Also intercepted is another Dangote truck smuggling another twenty-four Northern Youths into the state.
Conducting journalists round the intercepted trucks at the Ariam Osaka check point, the commissioner for Homeland Security, Prince Dan Okoli, said that the movement is contrary to the FG ban on interstate movement, warning that if Dangote group fails to call its drivers to order the state government might ban the operation of Dangote trucks within and through the state throughout this period of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prince Okoli said that the youths will be sent back to where they were coming from as there is no nearby isolation center while the truck driver would face the state Mobile Court.
Also speaking, the TC Chairman of Ikwuano local government area, Deacon Stanley Ojigbo, regretted that the trucks were allowed access into the state despite military checkpoints at the border, adding that the Covid-19 pandemic would be defeated if leaders from different states work together.
Speaking at the Abia/Enugu border a stakeholder in the area, Dr. Eze Chikamnayo, described the development as worrisome and wondered why the northern youths should be moving from one state of the southeast to the other in this period of lock down.
While the driver caught at the Abia/Enugu state border said he picked them up from Lokpanta cattle market on his way to Kano, the chairman of the cattle market in Lokpanta, Alhaji Anim Umar, who later arrived the scene, denied knowing them as, according to him, he is seeing them for the first time.
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It will be recalled that since the state government, through the Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, alerted the public on Tuesday regarding plots to ship almajirins and other northern youths into the state, 22 trucks with human cargoes stowed inside have been turned back from the state borders.
