Ghanaian Court fines Six Nigerians $2, 500 each for partying during lockdown
6 Nigerians face 5-year jail-terms for breaching lockdown
Six Nigerians are to pay a fine of $2500 each, about N900, 000 (Nine Hundred Thousand Naira) for attending a birthday party on Saturday in the capital, Accra. If they cannot pay the fine they will face a prison term of five years
A court in Ghana fixed the fine which is about (£2,040) each after the six pleaded guilty.
Similarly, a Nigerian court in Lagos sentenced a comedian, Funke Akindele and her husband to a two-week community service and N100, 000 teach for hosting a birthday party in their residence, thereby breaching the lockdown order by the Government.
Gatherings were banned under a three-week lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus , which has now been partially lifted.
At least 50 people are said to have been at the birthday party in the Accra suburb of Teshie.
But the police say they only managed to arrest six people while the rest are still at large.
Similar prosecutions are ongoing across Accra.
Ghana has lifted restrictions on movement imposed in parts of the country, but the ban on public gatherings and school openings is still in force.
The country’s borders remain shut for two more weeks to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Ghana has recorded 1,042 confirmed Covid-19 cases and nine deaths.
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