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The Bayelsa State Government and security operatives on Sunday intercepted and sent back two more buses carrying no fewer than seventeen Quoranic education pupils known as ‘Almajiri’ at the Glory Land, entry point into Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
Chief Freston Akpor, permanent secretary of the State Ministry of Information and Orientation and also a member of the State Covid-19 Taskforce, told our correspondent that in quick response, the operatives stationed at the entry point ordered that the almajiri children be taken back in the same buses conveying them.
According to Freston Akpor, the buses were intercepted by the a team of task force officials led by Akpoebi Agberebi with a team of security operatives on enforcing the ‘No Entry’ directive of the government at the border.
According to the members of the State Task Force on Covid-19, the Almajiris are made up of young boys of various origins from the Northern States.
“While some of the Almajiris claimed they were on their way to the state on commercial fishing expedition, others claimed to be on their way to Port Harcourt, Rivers State enroute Bayelsa waters.”
Chief Akpor however confirmed that the seventeen persons including their drivers were escorted to Patani, the border between Delta and Bayelsa states.
