It is no news that despite the four weeks lockdown by the federal government across the country, and five weeks lockdown in Lagos state, new cases of Covid-19 kept increasing especially in Lagos as individuals still devised ways of manoeuvring their ways from one state to another during the lockdown. 
Unfortunately, most of these breaches were facilitated by security personnel who abused the privileges their jobs afford them to transport people from one destination to another in spite of the restrictions.
Obviously the traffic in some parts of Lagos during the lockdown period attest to the fact that a lot of people who had essential pass were not supposed to.
Apart from the essential workers who flooded the roads, there were a handful of people who got bored with the lockdown and went to a party.
Ten persons were arrested on April 23, 2020, by operatives from Maroko Police Station for organising a party at Lekki Garden.
Similarly, April 24th, thirty-nine (39) suspects were arrested by operatives from Idimu Police Station in a hotel at Idimu for clubbing and striptease.
Two weeks ago the Lagos State Police command arrested seven commercial bus drivers and ninety-five interstate travellers in Lagos.
The suspects were arrested at Bhojson area, Ebute Metta of Lagos State on the 21st of April following intelligence reports received by police officers from Denton Police Station.
Although the drivers and passengers were charged to Mobile Court and sentenced accordingly, many others who not caught ironically succeeded in breaching the laws.
Recently a Chicken suya guy simply identified as Salau who went off to Kano at the beginning of the lockdown came back from Kano on April 27th.
Salau who sells chicken suya at his post near a Cinema in Lekki has now commenced selling of chicken suya at his post.
How did Salau wriggle his way from Lagos to Kano and from Kano back to Lagos during the lockdown?
According to reports, Salau managed to return to Lagos with the aid of a military officer who ought to know the implications of breaching the lockdown order.
Like Salau, several others have compromised the efforts of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Frontline workers by travelling from one state to the other with the help of greedy motorists or military officers.
Four out of the 11 travellers from Sokoto State intercepted on the Ibadan-Osun boundary on Friday by the Oyo State border patrol have tested positive for coronavirus.
According to the state’s Incident Manager, Dr Taiwo Ladipo, Nigeria Police Officers apprehended 11 travellers from Sokoto who were on their way to Akure, Ondo State last Friday.
After an interrogation of the travellers, Governor Seyi Makinde declared that the travellers would not be released to the Sokoto State government until they underwent COVID-19 tests.
The travellers who were intercepted at Asejire were detained overnight on Friday at the Gbagi Police Station before the testing was done on Saturday, unfortunately, four of them tested positive.
Imagine the catastrophe it would have caused if the law enforcement officers were not proactive.
On Tuesday, May 5th, a resident in Gbagidi in Ijanikin area of Lagos names withheld travelled all the way from Edo state to Lagos. According to him, “I paid ten thousand naira (N10, 000) for my transport fare, and those who have the cash to pay are allowed to move about freely. Passengers from Onitsha paid fifteen thousand naira to get to Lagos.
As people keep transmitting Covid-19 from one state to another, the government at all levels needs to live up to its responsibility by ensuring that measures put in place to contain the spread of the virus are enforced and violators adequately punished to serve as a deterrent to others.
