Social distancing: 45 persons arrested in Volta Region

Correspondence from Volta Region

Some 45 persons, mostly young men and women are arrested by the Police in Dzodze, the municipal capital of Ketu North Municipal Assembly of the Volta Region for violating the ban on social gathering.

The arrested persons were said to be having a party and swimming in a pool at a guesthouse in the afternoon of yesterday, Sunday, April 12 when the Police batched into the surprise of many including the guesthouse owner who is also arrested.

The arrest was made on the orders of the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Hon. Anthony Avorgbedor who had a hint of the reckless activities of the youths going on in the guesthouse.

The 45 persons have since been released from the Police custody in exception of the owner of the guesthouse whom the MCE said has been warned not to allow such activities to be going on in his guesthouse in these difficult times but failed to adhere to the warnings.

The MCE however, said that the guesthouse owner will be released today, April 13 after spending the night at the Police custody.

He further indicated that education on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Municipality will continue unabated, citing the geographical location of the Municipal Assembly as one of the reasons since the assembly shares boundaries with the Republic of Togo and Ketu South Municipal Assembly which has recorded six cases of the Coronavirus.