COVID-19: Fayemi orders fumigation across 16 LGAs

The Ekiti State government has ordered fumigation across the 16 local government areas of the state with the use of drone and motorized fumigators, to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the state. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti yesterday while flagging off the programme, Governor Kayode Fayemi, who was represented by  the  Commissioner for Environment, Gbenga Agbeyo, […]

The Ekiti State government has ordered fumigation across the 16 local government areas of the state with the use of drone and motorized fumigators, to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the state.

Speaking in Ado-Ekiti yesterday while flagging off the programme, Governor Kayode Fayemi, who was represented by  the  Commissioner for Environment, Gbenga Agbeyo, said the exercise became imperative to curb the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

Fayemi stated that places already covered in Ado Ekiti include; COVID-19 prone areas like: Bank road – Fajuyi, Adebayo -Opopogboro and  Fajuyi – Basiri – Iyin road, Dallimore Junction – Okeyinmi, among others.

“All the local government headquarters will be touched, because we are

mindful of the fact that we have to prevent community spread in a close society like Ekiti”, he said.

The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olufemi Osasona, said the fumigation would be a continuous exercise until coronavirus is totally eradicated in Ekiti.