Joggers Sentenced: Lagos State Government To Sentence Joggers To 14-Days Quarantine

The Lagos state government on Wednesday morning have set precedence by sentencing 34 joggers arrested for jogging along the Gbagada expressway to 14 days of compulsory Quarantine and 30 days of community service, they would serve their quarantine sentence at the Infectious Disease Hospital Yaba where other already tested Coronavirus patients are currently been treated.

The 34 persons were arrested by security operatives on Wednesday morning and then arraigned by the state government before a Magistrate court in Yaba. The arrested joggers pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of working out in a group larger than 20 persons on the Gbagada-Oworonsoki Expressway.

The court ruled that all 34 of them should be quarantined for 14 days at the Infectious Diseases Hospital Yaba or any other place designated by the government.

Three others pleaded not guilty. Photo Credit: Getty