Abia State Government has  extended indefinitely the curfew in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state which was scheduled to end in the early hours of Monday. This was contained in a release issued to the media by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Mr. Enyinnaya Apollos, on Monday. It said that the curfew starts from 10pm to 6am.  Apollos who said that the State Security Council was happy that peace has gradually returned to all parts of the state and directs the Nigeria Police Force to ensure that law and order was maintained in all parts of the state and to also make sure that they didn’t molest any Abian and innocent citizens while carrying out their duties.

 He said that the Council also warned miscreants trying to thwart the peace in the state to leave the state, adding that the Council directed that the current curfew imposed on Aba should be relaxed to ease movement challenges while sustaining the observed improvements in security across the state. The release read “Following the Abia State Security Council meeting held today, 18/09/2017, to assess the security situation in the state, the government wishes to state as follows:

1. Council observed and applaud the fact that relative peace and calm has returned to all parts of the state.

2. Council directs the Nigerian police to ensure that law and order is maintained around the state and innocent citizens are not molested in the course of their regular engagements.

3. Council wishes to warn all miscreants and mischief makers to leave the borders of Abia State immediately.

4. Council further directs that the current curfew imposed on Aba be relaxed to ease movement challenges while sustaining the observed improvements in security across the state.

5. We therefore wish to inform the General Public that the curfew at Aba will now be effective from 10pm to 6am, starting from today Monday 28th September 2017, till further notice.”

The Nation