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Once you come out to a place considered public it is a breach of curfew - COMPOL

Once you come out to a place considered public it is a breach of curfew - COMPOL

By Semi Turaga
15/04/2020
Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho

Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho stresses that if people are moving around within their own compounds then it is not a breach of the curfew but once you come out to a place that is considered public then it is a breach.

He says a public place is one that is considered accessible to others.

Qiliho has also clarified that Tevita Ubitau who claims he was arrested for smoking at the stairs of his home was arrested at a domain outside the parametres of what was considered the boundaries of his home where he resided.

The Police Commissioner says Ubitau was found sitting along a common driveway which therefore constitutes as a breach of curfew.

The 24-year-old man was sentenced to seven months imprisonment which was suspended for two years.

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