, besides raising the legality and wisdom of such a drastic and irreversible action. We should say directly: it was needless, hasty and highhanded at this time.
Indeed, it is alleged that a COVID-19 task force at the hotel to investigate the breach of the government order was chased away at gunpoint and one of its operatives was shot and later died. So, while other erring hotels were subjected to due process of the law, Prodest and Etemeteh hotels were summarily dealt with.
The legality of the governor’s act has been raised in some quarters. First, we should note that in recent times, citizens’ property has been demolished or more starkly put, destroyed. In Kaduna State, the property of a political opponent was brought down arbitrarily. In Oyo State, a former governor ordered partial destruction of a private radio station.