The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said on Thursday that the state’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic was being sabotaged at the sea, land and the domestic wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport.
Wike, who described the fight against COVID-19 as a matter of life and death, said airplanes continued to fly into the state, with their passengers sneaking into town to evade quarantine.
The governor, who spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt while inaugurating the State Task Force on Border Closure, said the resistance of the state against acts of sabotage was being viewed as a fight against the Federal Government.
Wike told members of the newly-created task force not to join security agencies to extort money from people, in order to preserve the aim of the task force.
“We are being sabotaged at sea, land and at the domestic wing of the airport. Sometimes, they secretly receive flights and before we know about it, the people sneak into the town. The task force in Ikwerre must check anyone coming from the airport,” he said.
