{"id":25513,"date":"2020-03-26T21:43:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25513"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:43:59","slug":"anambra-orders-closure-of-all-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25513","title":{"rendered":"Anambra orders closure of all markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25aa <strong>Orders monarchs, community leaders and security operatives to ensure full compliance<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom <strong>Chuks Moses<\/strong>, Awka<br \/>\nThe Anambra State Government has just ordered the closure of all markets in the state for 14 Days with effect \u202afrom Monday, March 30,2020\u202c<br \/>\nThe directive which was made public and signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, pointed out that it was part of ongoing measures by state government to stop the spread of Coronavirus,<br \/>\nAccording to the statement, &#8220;ALL markets in Anambra state will be closed \u202afrom Monday, 30th March, 2020\u202c for 14 days.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only businesses selling food items and medicines are authorised to stay open during the closure. Such businesses should however observe social distance protocols and other coronavirus health advisory already in place in Anambra state.<br \/>\n&#8220;During the 14-day period also, traders should stay at home and not move about&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nThe SSG stated that the directive will be reviewed at the end of the 14-day period.<br \/>\nHe charged all traders, especially the market leaderships to strictly comply with the directive.<br \/>\nMembers of the state&#8217;s Covid-19 Task Force, the police and other security agencies were also directed to strictly enforce the directive.<br \/>\nEarlier, the state government had ordered the immediate suspension of all social engagements including wedding, traditional marriage, burial, house warming, title taking and such other social ceremonies.<br \/>\nTraditional rulers, town union leaderships and the vigilante services have been consequently ordered to ensure strict compliance.<br \/>\nMost traditional rulers have therefore suspended palace activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25aa Orders monarchs, community leaders and security operatives to ensure full compliance From Chuks Moses, Awka The Anambra State Government has just ordered the closure of all markets in the state for 14 Days with effect \u202afrom Monday, March 30,2020\u202c The directive which was made public and signed by the Secretary to the State Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[71,1343,1344],"class_list":["post-25513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-anambra","tag-markets","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}