Cross River State Government has dispelled the rumour of curfew in Calabar, the State capital.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press Secretary to
Governor Ben Ayade, Mr Christian Ita in a statement made available to
DAILY POST on Friday evening explained that such news never emanated
from the state government.
He said that the attention of the Cross River State Government was
drawn to a news item circulating in the social media in which the
Nigerian Police wa purported to have directed business concerns,
including drinking joints and bars in Calabar to close shop at 10pm.
The state government, he explained, “wishes to state without
equivocation that it is unaware of such a directive from the police and
that only it (The state government) has the power to place the whole or
any part of the state under a curfew.
“We, therefore, ask members of the public to treat as fake any news
purporting a directive to residents and business concerns to close shop
at 10pm. We also wish to state that in spite of recent security
challenges, the state remains one of the safest in the country and as
such would not compel such a directive”.
Consequently, Mr Ita said that members of the public should,
therefore, go about their normal businesses as government had adopted
several strategies, including daily raids on suspected criminal
hideouts, to ensure the state remained safe.
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