divinehand2003:
Endtime traders

IRIEBOY:
Traders from the South-East geo-political zone
have disowned the Director of Radio Biafra,
Nnamdi Kanu and his cohorts in the pro-
Biafran agitation.
The traders under the auspices of ‘South East
Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, in
a statement made available to journalists in
Awka on Tuesday, said traders in the area had
nothing to do with the Movement for the
Actualisation of Biafra and the Indigenous
People of Biafra, headed by Kanu.
The IPOB is a splinter group from MASSOB.
The traders’ statement was signed by their
President and the Secretary, Okwudili
Ezenwankwo and Temple Udeh respectively.
They said that their position on the issue had
become necessary because of frequent calls
by the secessionist groups for closure of
markets in the area, stressing that the public
could be deceived by such calls into believing
that traders were involved in the lawless
struggle.
The statement read, “We are constrained to
react to the continuous calls for close of
businesses in the zone in protest and
solidarity for Biafra.
“Traders in the South-East wish to dissociate
ourselves from MASSOB and IPOB. We have
nothing to do whatsoever with these lawless
groups.
“The difficulties and hardship, which traders
and residents in general suffer during these
protests, had made the traders to react to the
situation and the development and make its
position very clear and unambiguous.
“The invasion of markets and other business
outfits and the destruction of property of
individuals like shops and vehicles in the
name of pro-Biafra protest is not only
condemnable but unacceptable.
“We are yet to understand the wisdom in the
protest where the properties and other
valuables and belongings of the Igbo are
either vandalised or destroyed by fellow Igbo
in the name of Pro-Biafra protest.
“The hardship, which the Igbo that relocated
from the North-East in the wake of Boko
Haram insurgency are passing through, is still
staring every right thinking Igbo man in the
face, yet the Pro-Biafra groups are calling
other Igbo doing their businesses in other
parts of Nigeria to relocate to the South-East.
This doesn’t make any sense.
“No particular zone in this country is an
island and none can successfully develop
without inter-relationship with the others.
.“Times are hard and the traders condemn, in
strong terms, any action, by any group or
individual, that will further aggravate the
already very difficult times experienced by
traders in this area.
“The traders are totally not in support of any
protest that will further adversely affect the
people of the South-East.
“We want to state clearly that traders in the
South East are solidly in support of the
administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari.”
The statement stressed that “traders in the
zone shall not support any action that will
aggravate the hardship already being
experienced by Nigerians”.
They appealed to the President to address the
issue of dilapidated federal infrastructure in
the South East, particularly the federal roads
in the zone, which they described as death
traps.
They listed the bad roads in the zone to
include the Enugu Onitsha Expressway,
Enugu¬Abakaliki Expressway, Enugu-Port
Harcourt Expressway, Aba-Owerri Road and
Owerri-Port Harcourt Road. www.punchng.com/seast-traders-disown-biafra-nnamdi-kanu/

1shortblackboy:
Waiting for d resident IPOB members to come and denpunce these traders too

mazzi:
Now I see why people call yerubas lazy people; its only a lazy man that discusses the gain or losses of his fellow man,while poverty is dealing with him.