Security authorities assigned at the Liberia/Sierra Leone have reportedly arrested several market women from Liberia who were clandestinely finding their way via canoe to Sierra Leone to purchase fish and other commodities.
According to report aired on local radio station in Monrovia through its Grand Cape Mount County Correspondent, said the women are currently being questioned by security authorities in the county for violating the orders given to ban cross border trade between Liberia and Sierra Leone by both governments as a means of preventing the spread of the COVID-19.
Both countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone are battling with the deadly Coronavirus which has taken hundreds of lives, and globally taken millions of lives. This latest development to bring to those violators has been welcomed by Liberians who spoke to the GNN following the report of the arrest of some border traders.
