Onimisi Alao, Yola
Twenty-one motorists found themselves sweeping sections of the major market in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, on Monday as punishment for being on the street amidst a lockdown order.
A total of 50 people had been arrested and brought before a special mobile court which found 21 of them guilty and sentenced them to community service.
The court consequently ordered them to sweep the Jimeta Modern Market, the largest commercial centre in the state capital.
The mobile court had come into place as part of measures to enforce a movement in restriction ordered by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri to check the spread of COVID-19.
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The index case of COVID-19 in the state was confirmed on Wednesday, following which immediate contacts have had their samples taken and test results being expected.
The Adamawa State Government had first imposed a lockdown on the state between March 31 and April 14.
Fintiri had relaxed the lockdown after that initial two-week period, but reintroduced it with effect from Sunday, April 26, following the Wednesday April 22 confirmation of the state index COVID-19 case.
During the initial lockdown, virtually anyone who had a car put it on the road, some of them operating as taxi.
The action of the mobile court on Monday appears to be a warning to especially Yola residents that only people on essential services would be allowed to ply the streets.
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