Plateau governor, Lalong
By Raymond Gukas, Jos
The Plateau State Government has cried out over the use of fake passes during lockdown by unscrupulous individuals.
This action, the government stressed, is frustrating its efforts in the the fight against COVID-19 as the spread continue to grow globally.
Making government’s position known in a statement, the state commissioner of information technology, Dan Manjang said henceforth, such display of impunity will no longer be tolerated.
The statement which is coming few hours to the commencement of another four day round of lockdown, noted further that that was some of the reasons the enforcers are having while discharging their duties.
According to him, “it has come to the notice of the Plateau State Government that there is a proliferation of fake documents flying about in the name of passes.Some of such fake documents take the form of letters both photo copies and originals.
“This attitude has contributed to frustrating the enforcement of the lockdown exercise and the Presidential curfew across the State.This has also put such persons on coalition course with enforcers of the Presidential and Executive orders in the state”, it stressed
As a result, the authority said all passes issued by the state task force on COVID-19 are time bound and have expiry dates and that any letter of exemption so certified by any organisation must be presented as original that as photo copies will not be accepted nor recognized.
Furthermore, Personal Identification of persons so captured by the Executive Order of the Governor as being on essential duty suffices are the only recognisable passes that should be considered and anything short of this, “enforcers of the lock down order should take note and act accordingly.”
