Respite For Businesses As ‘Sit-At-Home’ In S/East Fades

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its…

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its economy and crippled many businesses in the zone, appears to be waning down, given that some major cities are no longer abiding strictly to the order. Daily Trust Saturday report.

 
Daily Trust Saturday observed that some markets and businesses across the zone have started opening on Mondays.

Majority of people in the zone are traders and self employed, who rely on their daily income to feed their families. The sit-at-home had seriously affected traders in Onitsha main market and other markets across the South East because buyers hardly come to buy on Mondays. Those who come horriedly do their transactions or stop in neighbouring states.

Many traders, children and people in some parts of the South East states do not go to work  and school on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home by the IPOB. The same applies to big shopping malls like Roban Stores, Spar, ShopRite and some other big markets like Ogbete main market, Onitsha main market, Nnewi Automobile market and many markets in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia states. Most of them do not open for business until at about 3 or 4pm on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home in the region.

called on the government to sustain the operation.

Okey Chukwuemeka, an indigene of Awka, said the sit-at-home is gradually dying and prayed that it does not resurface again in the city.

He hopes that the government and people of Anambra State will continue to partner with security operatives to end the matter.

In Imo State, the sit-at-home is still enforced in towns like Okigwe, Orsu, Orlu and others towns bordering Anambra State.

However, the combined security force is liberating some communities, while those in the supposedly freed areas are sometimes harassed for coming out on Mondays.

The Governors Forum

Governors of the South-East Zone had earlier met in Enugu and resolved to set up a joint 24-hour patrol team in all the major highways in the region.

They also insisted that a political solution was desirable in solving the issue of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, stressing that they were monitoring developments over court rulings in his trial.

However, Governor Soludo of Anambra State had, as part of efforts to end the sit-at-home, offered amnesty to all those in the forests around in the state, urging them to drop their guns.

He  also declared an end to the sit-at-home exercise in the state.

He said also constituted a Peace and Reconciliation Committee that will look into issues surrounding the sit-at-home exercise.

According to Soludo, the committee will also interface with the Federal Government on how to end the menace.

Soludo said the release of Nnamdi Kanu would facilitate the quick ending of sit-at-home. He also promised to reintegrate them into the society for a better and meaningful engagement.

An Owerri-based lawyer, Mr Charles Ude, said that the issue is very dicey because if you support the agitation, you are seen as anti Nigeria and if you oppose, you will be seen as a betrayer.

“I think the only thing that will save the situation is good governance and if the country is properly managed. There should be a leadership that cares for the people,” he said.

The convener of Recover Nigeria Project, Comrade Osita Obi, said “The sit-at-home order is not dying and it is not increasing. It is still the way it has been over the years. The reason is that people do not have confidence in the government. The non actors are taking over the sit-at-home because they have instilled fear in the minds of the people and government is not doing anything to build confidence among the people. We can resolve this problem if the governors can come down from their Olympian height to listen to the advice of the people. Our governors are too elitists and they do not care about the happening in the communities,” he said.

He said that every community knows the criminals in their areas, noting that if the government empowers traditional rulers and town union organisation, security can improve.

He said there is no way criminals from other community will operate in any community without the help of insiders

https://dailytrust.com/respite-for-businesses-as-sit-at-home-in-s-east-fades/

Everything na phase by phase

Oh please there was absolutely no need for this news absolutely none

U would make this wicked people renew ekpa's contract

Igbos are simply people, never in history have we wanted to dominate others

All we ask for is a fair country to thrive that's all

No changes here

Igbos are realizing that Nnamdi Kanu is not worth dying for and that Biafra is an illusion that's why they are now actively pursuing Nigerian presidency but with a thief in the person of Peter Obi.

IPOB's appeal lay in the perception that they were a means of counteracting the perceived threat of Fulanis. With Buhari no longer in power, their appeal has diminished. The sort of people who filled the ranks of IPOB (poorly educated young men) were indoctrinated to resent the Muslim north.

Aftermath of the sit at home,

Those who sat at home are not complaining

Those who were working everyday are crying

vanbonattel:
Aftermath of the sit at home,

Those who sat at home are not complaining

Those who were working everyday are crying

Thats the irony of life. Those who wanted to teach igbos political lessons are protesting and crying in the markets.

It was only a matter of time.

It gained notoriety and traction because the government of the day gave it attention by staging all manners of "animal dances and smiles" in their precinct.

With Asiwaju's aloofness to the self inflicted economic destruction of the South East, the players "receive sense"

You think it has failed. You and propaganda

So they finally freed themselves from their own self inflicted destruction?

Hate is blind.

People are being slaughtered left, right and centre in the country. People are being kidnapped recklessly, communities are being decimated

Yet some people's problem is about who sat, or did not sit at home in the East? Isn't that madness?

Ezewuzie01:
Igbos are realizing that Nnamdi Kanu is not worth dying for and that Biafra is an illusion that's why they are now actively pursuing Nigerian presidency but with a thief in the person of Peter Obi.

Who said it was about just Nnamdi Kanu? IPOB or no IPOB won't change the fact that Nigeria is a failed entity where nothing will ever get better. Better the illusion of Biafra, than the reality of a failed Nigeria

matify83:
It was only a matter of time.

It gained notoriety and traction because the government of the day gave it attention by staging all manners of "animal dances and smiles" in their precinct.

With Asiwaju's aloofness to the self inflicted economic destruction of the South East, the players "receive sense"

Asiwaju is aloof about everything, economy, insecurity, corruption, inflation.

That's why he is enjoying himself in France while the country crashes

gidgiddy:


Asiwaju is aloof about everything, economy, insecurity, corruption, inflation.

That's why he is enjoying himself in France while the country crashes

have you voted in the leflendum?

Simon ekpa source of income has been banished,ekperima kept hammering on sit at home because that was the only thing that kept him relevance, now sit at home is gone for good

Ikpeyi:
Respite For Businesses As ‘Sit-At-Home’ In S/East Fades

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its…

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its economy and crippled many businesses in the zone, appears to be waning down, given that some major cities are no longer abiding strictly to the order. Daily Trust Saturday report.

 
Daily Trust Saturday observed that some markets and businesses across the zone have started opening on Mondays.

Majority of people in the zone are traders and self employed, who rely on their daily income to feed their families. The sit-at-home had seriously affected traders in Onitsha main market and other markets across the South East because buyers hardly come to buy on Mondays. Those who come horriedly do their transactions or stop in neighbouring states.

Many traders, children and people in some parts of the South East states do not go to work  and school on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home by the IPOB. The same applies to big shopping malls like Roban Stores, Spar, ShopRite and some other big markets like Ogbete main market, Onitsha main market, Nnewi Automobile market and many markets in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia states. Most of them do not open for business until at about 3 or 4pm on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home in the region.

called on the government to sustain the operation.

Okey Chukwuemeka, an indigene of Awka, said the sit-at-home is gradually dying and prayed that it does not resurface again in the city.

He hopes that the government and people of Anambra State will continue to partner with security operatives to end the matter.

In Imo State, the sit-at-home is still enforced in towns like Okigwe, Orsu, Orlu and others towns bordering Anambra State.

However, the combined security force is liberating some communities, while those in the supposedly freed areas are sometimes harassed for coming out on Mondays.

The Governors Forum

Governors of the South-East Zone had earlier met in Enugu and resolved to set up a joint 24-hour patrol team in all the major highways in the region.

They also insisted that a political solution was desirable in solving the issue of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, stressing that they were monitoring developments over court rulings in his trial.

However, Governor Soludo of Anambra State had, as part of efforts to end the sit-at-home, offered amnesty to all those in the forests around in the state, urging them to drop their guns.

He  also declared an end to the sit-at-home exercise in the state.

He said also constituted a Peace and Reconciliation Committee that will look into issues surrounding the sit-at-home exercise.

According to Soludo, the committee will also interface with the Federal Government on how to end the menace.

Soludo said the release of Nnamdi Kanu would facilitate the quick ending of sit-at-home. He also promised to reintegrate them into the society for a better and meaningful engagement.

An Owerri-based lawyer, Mr Charles Ude, said that the issue is very dicey because if you support the agitation, you are seen as anti Nigeria and if you oppose, you will be seen as a betrayer.

“I think the only thing that will save the situation is good governance and if the country is properly managed. There should be a leadership that cares for the people,” he said.

The convener of Recover Nigeria Project, Comrade Osita Obi, said “The sit-at-home order is not dying and it is not increasing. It is still the way it has been over the years. The reason is that people do not have confidence in the government. The non actors are taking over the sit-at-home because they have instilled fear in the minds of the people and government is not doing anything to build confidence among the people. We can resolve this problem if the governors can come down from their Olympian height to listen to the advice of the people. Our governors are too elitists and they do not care about the happening in the communities,” he said.

He said that every community knows the criminals in their areas, noting that if the government empowers traditional rulers and town union organisation, security can improve.

He said there is no way criminals from other community will operate in any community without the help of insiders

https://dailytrust.com/respite-for-businesses-as-sit-at-home-in-s-east-fades/

Madman anthem!!! Sit at home every monday is still in place at every monday.

All this propaganda cannot lead you anywhere. If doubt me , come down to south east see for your self.

Pls stop singing and disturbing us with mad man anthem here.

matify83:
It was only a matter of time.

It gained notoriety and traction because the government of the day gave it attention by staging all manners of "animal dances and smiles" in their precinct.

With Asiwaju's aloofness to the self inflicted economic destruction of the South East, the players "receive sense"

100% Well said!