The Kaduna state government said that worship centers and markets within the state will continue to remain shut.
Residents of the state thought such locations opened because the Presidential taskforce on COVID-19 lifted the ban on them on Monday, June 1.
Nonetheless, in a statement released last night. The state government mentioned relevant government agencies are currently engaging business, community, and religious leaders to discuss and agree on the protocols for the safe opening of businesses and market, and resumption of congregational worship.
The statement adds that public places equivalent to markets and worship centers stay shut because the consultations haven’t been concluded.
”Until these consultations result in a formal announcement authorising businesses, markets and places of worship to reopen, it will be a violation of subsisting Quarantine Orders to reopen any unauthorised facility, market or places of worship or to conduct congregational worship of any sort.
Places of worship in Kaduna State not closed by the Federal Government.
The choice to shut places of worship in Kaduna State taken and enforced in March 2020 by the state government. As a part of the proclamation of the Quarantine Orders within the state.
Kaduna State will not be one of the three states and the FCT where the Federal Government imposed a lockdown.
The steps taken to ease such federally-imposed lockdowns within the involved places shouldn’t be construed as the Federal Government relaxing in all states conditions that it didn’t impose in the first place.” the statement read.
