IPOB: Banks, businesses fail to open in Anambra Despite suspension of sit-at-home order (SEE PHOTOS)

Olayinka Owolabi

Despite the suspension of the weekly sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Banks, business centres, eateries failed to open on Monday in Onitsha and Awka, Anambra State capital.

Our correspondent Olayinka Owolabi, who monitored activities on Monday morning in Onitsha, the commercial hub of the State capital, observed that streets and roads were deserted unlike every other day.

While businesses, especially markets operated on a low level, few persons who came out found it difficult to get commercial vehicles, tricycles and motorbikes they could board to their destinations, major markets like Onitsha Main Market, Ose Market, Ogbaru Relief Market, Ochanja Market, Electronic Market and Motor Spare parts Market, Ogidi.

It should be recall that IPOB had declared a sit-at-home order in the South-East every Monday to protest the detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The order turned bloody last Monday as about eight persons were killed by hoodlums.

The group, in a statement on Saturday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, however, suspended the order on, adding that the sit-at-home would now hold whenever Kanu appears in court.

The ever-busy Upper Iweka axis, Onitsha - Asaba headbridge road, Awka road, 3-3 to Nkwelle road, Army Barrack Post Roundabout, Awkuzu Roundabout, Ogidi road, and Local Government Secretariat axis all in Onitsha were deserted on early Monday morning.

An artisan, who didn’t disclose his name,  he didn’t go to work because he didn’t believe the news that IPOB had cancelled the sit-at-home order.

He said that the news that the sit-at-home order had been suspended could be a ploy to lure people out so that they would be harmed.


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