Covid19
8 Convicted For Not Wearing Facemasks In Edo
8 persons were on Friday convicted for not wearing facemasks in Edo State. They were among 12 persons arraigned on similar charges of violating the COVID-19 protocol by an Edo Magistrate Court in Oredo Magisterial District.
The convicts were sentenced to community service as punishment for refusing to wear facemasks in public and breaking the 10 pm to 5 am curfew in the state.
The 12 suspects were arraigned before the mobile court which held its sitting at the Edo State High Court premises, with Chief Magistrate Bright Eraze Oniha presiding.
The suspects arrested and convicted for not wearing facemasks in Edo included Abu Sani, Umaru Ali, Emmanuella Sylvester, Desmond Victory, Peter Nyashi, Franca Osas, Kashatu Mahmud and Clement Palmer.
They were convicted for violating regulations 8(6)(c) of the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Regulations 2020 and Section 203 of the criminal code law, Cap 48, Vol. II, law of the defunct Bendel State, 1976, as applicable to Edo State.
8 Convicted For Not Wearing Facemasks In Edo
Four persons, namely Sylvester Alufokhai, Austin King, Austin Osaro and James Uyi, were arraigned for breaking the state’s curfew directive.
Of the four suspects, Sylvester Alufokhai was convicted for violating the regulation 16 (3) of the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Regulations (2020).
The conviction of the eight for not wearing facemasks in Edo came after the Edo State Judiciary constituted Mobile Courts across the state to try violators of the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020, invoked by Governor Godwin Obaseki to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state.  Â
The development comes following the spike in the number of new cases of the pandemic in the state with Gov. Godwin Obaseki using a carrot and stick approach to tackle the ugly development.
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