Following the order of the inspector general of police,More than 50 doctors and journalists were arrested on Tuesday, may 19.
President Muhammed Buhari had declared health workers,journalists and other essential workers exempted from the curfew imposed as a means to check the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
In Alausa area of Ikeja,Lagos, journalists and doctors who were returning from work were taken by force to the police station where they were detained and their vehicles impounded.
Some key members of the presidential task force on COVID-19 were said to have been contacted and after over two hours in detention,the IGP directed that they be released.
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