Police: No State Of Emergency In Ekiti, Vow To Apprehend Assailants

By Daniel Dafe

The Ekiti State Police Command has reacted to a story circulating on the social media that a state of emergency has been declared in the State due to the recent security situation, adding that all movements should be between 7am and 7pm.

The Command in a statement on Friday on its X handle, said: “We wish to state clearly that the information as being circulated is false and definitely coming from fake news peddlers who are always in the business of causing unnecessary apprehension in the society and therefore, everyone is implored to disregard the story.”

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AC ording to the statement, “the Command has deployed adequate operatives to ensure there is no breach of peace while effort to arrest those behind the criminal acts is underway.”