The government of Cross River State recently ordered five truckloads of Almajirai from the Northern part of the Country back to their point of origin.
The truckloads of almajirai including other passengers were intercepted on the state Boundary by the members of a Patrol team, made up of Peace Corps members, Civilian vigilante groups, Border COVID-19 Taskforce, and Youth groups. They had stopped the illegal migration of this group, on Wednesday night at the Garkem border town in Bekwara LGA of the state near Benue State.
This was successful through the intensive search and blockage of interstate vehicular travels, which was team-led by Signor Omang Idiege the state commissioner for the Youth.
In a statement he said, “After a thorough check of the five trucks and on discovering that most of the passengers, aside goods, were almajiriai who did not meet COVID-19 protocols, we had to force them to return.”
The commissioner appealed COVID-19 task force to visit the truck parks in the state and caution their drivers against conveying almajirai who have not been previously isolated.
State security adviser Alfred Mboto said, “We got a report from our security and taskforce teams at the Garkem border town that trucks carrying a large number of children from the north alleged to be almajirai were intercepted after thorough check, and have been sent back.”
