{"id":26232,"date":"2020-05-08T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26232"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:56:02","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-wike-orders-task-force-to-identify-hotels-operating-for-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26232","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Lockdown: Wike Orders Task Force To Identify Hotels Operating For Demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed officials of the Local Government Task Force to identify hotels operating during the lockdown for demolition, following the spread on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.<br \/>\nGovernor Wike gave the directive on Thursday while inaugurating the Rivers State COVID-19 Local Government Task Force at the Government House in Port Harcourt.<br \/>\nHe also charged the officials to identify erring beer parlours.<br \/>\n\u201cFrom tomorrow,\u00a0 move into any hotel that is operating, identify it and we will bring down the hotels.<br \/>\n\u201cI have the political will.\u00a0 Those people who disobey will face the consequences.\u201d<br \/>\nGovernor Wike said that the officials must be decisive to ensure that the virus is not accommodated in the state, adding that they are being drafted to fight an invisible killer as well as defend the state.<br \/>\n\u201cNobody should come from outside to compound our problems and import this invisible killer. We will not accept that\u201d.<br \/>\nGovernor Wike appealed to the residents of the state to sacrifice their time in the fight against the pandemic, emphasising that all hands must be on deck.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should not allow what is happening to continue, we don\u2019t have the capacity to face it and there will be no support from any quarter,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe Governor informed members of the\u00a0Rivers State COVID-19 Local Governments Task Force that they will be on the payroll of the State Government.<br \/>\nHe said that the Task Force will enforce key aspects of the State Government\u2019s directive on COVID-19 in all the Local Government Areas.<br \/>\nHe also instructed that hotels with existing guests should send their lists to his office for scrutiny and approval.<br \/>\n\u25aa By <strong>Channels Television<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed officials of the Local Government Task Force to identify hotels operating during the lockdown for demolition, following the spread on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Governor Wike gave the directive on Thursday while inaugurating the Rivers State COVID-19 Local Government Task Force at the Government House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[662,1233,742],"class_list":["post-26232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-demolition","tag-hotel","tag-wike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232","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=26232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}