Twenty-one persons who violated the stay at home and restrictions of movement which commenced on Sunday have been convicted and sentenced by a mobile court set up by the Adamawa state government.
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, on Friday, announced, the decision to enforce a total lockdown of the state, to commence midnight of Saturday, after the state recorded the first case of Corona Virus, from a returnee from Kano who tested positive.
But on Monday, the mobile court, which the state government, said would be inaugurated to ensure compliance of its regulation on the restriction of movements, tried over 50 persons arrested by the state task force.
Twenty-one persons among those arraigned were convicted and sentenced to two hours of community service.
The convicts were ordered to sweep part of the Jimeta modern market in Yola.
Magistrate Daniel John, who handed down the judgment had acquitted 29 accused arraigned by the police.
He said the sentence was lenient because the punishment is to overburden the people.
He said:
“This exercise is not to punish the citizens but it is to protect ourselves, the state and the country at large.”
Speaking earlier, spokesperson for the state police command, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, said security forces were working in synergy, to enforce the lockdown order.
He said:
“We have arrested a number of motorists and they will appear before a mobile court.”
