A pastor in Nigeria’s southern metropolis of Calabar has been arrested for breaching lockdown regulations by conducting a wedding in his church.
In a video clip, friends can be noticed fleeing as officials entered the setting up.
The pastor, from the Apostolic Church, was arrested on Saturday by members of Cross River state’s Covid-19 taskforce who had been on patrol. They received suspicious just after seeing an unconventional amount of motor vehicles parked in front of the church.
“We were being patrolling to see the compliance stage when we noticed cars parked and it had me thinking where the automobiles experienced arrive from,” Potrait Peterson, the leader of the patrol team advised BBC Pidgin.
He said when his team entered the church, they found more than 300 people today collected, in violation of social distancing guidelines in the point out.
The condition is 1 of only two in Nigeria however to report any scenario of coronavirus and authorities had banned general public gatherings of much more than 5 people. The state was also one particular of the to start with in Nigeria to make encounter masks obligatory in general public.
The video clip of the raid reveals the attendees fleeing and leaving the bemused wedding day few, in advance of the groom led his bride down the aisle to the exit.
