₦airaland Forum

Since Ndigbo have sacrificed their Biafra birthright for Peter Peter Obi's presidential ambition; Justice Binta should just pass death sentence on Kanu since he has been disowned.

Alpharey:
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Everybody must die one day. The manner not determined.. so stop celebrating another person's situation. You don't know tommorow. Some of the people who died in several shootings and beheadings in this country might have also celebrated the incarceration of this man without knowing his intention to defend the helpless people of this land from these land grabbers.

Kanu is dying slowly, as for me i banged ikpu today which Kanu is missing in the last 1 year

Cubalabloo:
The East and South will not know peace until Kanu is released! Idiots.

Peter Pandora ambition supersede Kanu's life

PaChukwudi44:
You are the one who decided to become blind to happenings around you

who are his allies in the north and west?
just name one and you win yourself something big

SmartPolician:
Joker! Your ethnic banters won't work!

Perhaps I need to remind you that every region has qualified people.

So, it is not Obi's fault that he came from the South East or his fault that the big parties picked people with baggage instead of sane people among them.

Obi is the best candidate in this race....

the question is why other regions are not campaigning for the Pandora Man?

The Federal High Court in Abuja has stayed proceedings on the Nnamdi Kanu’s case pending the outcome of the case at the Court of Appeal.
Counsel for Kanu, Mike Ozekhome had told the court that they filed a notice of appeal requesting the 8 count charge struck out, from the 15 count initial charge by the prosecution.
Ozekhome is of the opinion that the whole charge should be struck out and the suit be discharged.
Kanu’s counsel also told the court by the notice of Appeal the hearing has been given accelerated hearing for October 11,2022.
Justice Nyako therefore adjourned to November 14,2022, pending the determination of the appeal before the appellate court.

https://ait.live/court-stays-proceedings-on-nnamdi-kanu-trial-till-november-14/

Emergingnation:
Yet it won't stop the imminent Biafra actualization..... Chronic unity Begging Fulani Muslim..

before or after peter Obi 'plesidency'?

better
he will die in our Zoo cage
Pandora Peter Obi ambition is greater than living Kanu

why are the dirty like this?

Totilopussylick:
To read all this finished, you will miss the rest of the news on Nairaland

in summary ipob goats sit at home is destroying Ala ibo

Social and commercial activities in the South East and beyond have continued to bear the brunt of the enforcement of the sit-at-home order declared by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to protest the trial of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the federal government. Several announcements of cancellation of the order and deployment of security operatives have not deterred criminals from enforcing it.

In Imo, the sit-at-home order has had a devastating effect on the economy as banks, companies and government institutions are forced to close.

In Imo, weekends start from Friday as going out is likened to embarking on a suicide mission. In most cases, it stretches to other days of the week, especially on the days the leader of the outlawed group is scheduled to make a court appearance.

This week’s sit-at-home will stretch to Tuesday because Kanu is scheduled to appear in court on June 28.

The worst hit are the operators of small businesses, who are forced to close down during the period. Schools are also not permitted to open, while most hotels always discourage lodgers from stepping out from their rooms. Gatherings within the facility are even discouraged in some hotels and resorts.

Mr. Mike Ezechi, who operates a cab business in Owerri, told our correspondent that as a daily income earner, the sit-at-home had had a terrible blow on his finances.

He said, “My brother, it has been hard feeding my family. As a Catholic I refrain from working on Sundays, but the present situation has forced me to change that policy. After Sunday service, I work for some hours, just to look for what we will eat on Monday. Now we have sit-at-home on Monday and Tuesday next week. We heard that Kanu would appear in court. On such days, it is double jeopardy for me and my family.”

The situation is not different from sellers of foodstuffs and vulcanisers who depend on daily income for survival.
Mrs Grace Onyewuchi, who sells foodstuff at the Relief Market, said it was difficult for businesses to pick up because normally, goods are delivered on Mondays.

She said, “As sellers of perishables, if you don’t finish selling your goods before the sit-at-home days you will incur a lot of losses because they will become bad before the next market day.”


A tailor in Eke Awka, Anambra State, Mr Uche Anichebe, said the sit-at-home order was affecting the ordinary people of the region.

“Though I am a supporter of the IPOB and the agitation, we cannot destroy our economy for any reason. People are suffering because of the sit at home order,” he said.

A transporter, Mr Christian Nwali, said that plying some routes in the region had become a nightmare because of the possibility of an attack. He lamented that he had not been able to fully pay for the bus he got on hire purchase over a year ago due to the violence in the region.

“My brother, it is not easy, and if care is not taken, before we know it, the South East economy will collapse and to recover would be difficult even if we get Biafra,” he said.

Our correspondent observed that in most rural areas, the situation is worse as unknown gunmen operate unchallenged. This has made it difficult for movement of goods, especially from rural farmers.

Jude Oguzie, who described himself as an economist, said that apart from facing starvation, the fear of unknown gunmen had made life difficult for people who would normally want to come out.

He said, “There is this culture of fear, which prevents people from venturing out. This sit-at-home has damaged the economy in the South East and the government has to do something about it.”

Economy slowly destroyed

While there is no accurate data on the economic loss from the sit-at-home order, it is believed that the five states in the region and beyond suffer from the enforced lockdown. Banks and organisations, including government-owned agencies, are forced to shut down in most instances.

The Anambra State governor, Chukuma Soludo, recently said his state lost N19.6 billion to the sit-at-home order every Monday.

He said, “Every day there is a sit at home, these poor masses lose an estimated N19.6bn in Anambra alone,

“Due to the protracted breakdown of law and order, businesses are relocating outside Igbo land, with growing unemployment. Traders who used to come to shop in Onitsha, Aba etc are going elsewhere.

“Who is losing? By forcing our children—the future of Igbo land —to stay at home instead of being in school, while even the critically sick people (including pregnant women) cannot go to the hospital, we harm our future.”

In 2021, the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, put it mildly by saying the entire South East region lost over N10bn each time it observed the sit at home order.

“We are destroying our economy. The sit-at-home is not happening in the South West and the North. Each time we sit at home we lose over N10bn in our economy,” Umahi said.

Some businessmen in Onitsha said over N25bn was lost in the city alone each day the order was observed.

They lamented over the loss of patronage, saying their customers had been diverting businesses to Lagos for fear of being attacked.

Similarly, a group known as Igbo Business Forum, which urged the IPOB not to use the Biafran struggle to destroy the economy of the South East, lamented that every Monday, the zone would lose billions of naira because of the sit-at-home order.

“How can some people decide to ruin the economy of their people because of a struggle? And come to think of it, they are not more Biafran than us. How can you tell people to sit at home when you have nothing to manage the effect of hunger in the land? Those of us in the business sector lose an average of N25bn in Onitsha alone. I believe we also lose the same sum in Aba, Nnewi and other places, and this is not good for our economy.

“My colleagues in other zones are celebrating what we lost to them due to the sit-at- home order. What is happening in the South East, if it continues, would spell doom to the zone? Those that usually came to the South East to transact business have deserted us and moved to Lagos instead of the normal Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. We are losing a lot as a result of this sit-at-home,” the spokesman of the group, Chief Ndubuisi Ehibundu lamented,

Schools, emergency services not exempted

Daily Trust on Sunday gathered that in South East, schools are closed on Mondays, denying students in the area the opportunity to learn.

There have been instances where hoodlums enforcing the order chased away students writing examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). They also set motorcycles belonging to teachers and students ablaze, warning them not to disobey the sit-at-home order.

“Schools are always under lock and key on Mondays. There is nothing the school can do about it because no parent wants to risk the lives of their children. It is even difficult for us as teachers to get to the schools,” one of the teachers in a government-owned secondary school disclosed.

According to him, schools now open from Tuesday to Friday, excluding days that Kanu makes appearances in court.

In an address earlier this year, Soludo lamented that the order was destroying the future of the children of the region.

“In other parts of the country, schoolchildren attend classes for five days, but in Anambra and other parts of the South East, it is only four days. At the end of the day, our children will go into common or unity exams with other children from other parts of the country,” he lamented.

Pa Nnamdi said he lost a neighbour because there was no vehicle to take him to hospital when he took ill during one of the sit-at-home days. He said efforts to get medical assistance for the late Pa Ejiofor, whom he described as one of the oldest in the community, were futile.

“Ejiofor was loved by the people of this community but there was no way to help him when his illness deteriorated because we couldn’t take him to the hospital. The boys were having clashes with the police and soldiers. If you dare step out, you can get killed by either the IPOB or soldiers,” he said

Inter-state movement grounded

Although the order is in the five states within the region, the effect is felt in other places, especially in the area of inter-state movement and trade.

Inter-state transporters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said the order had affected their sources of livelihood, especially on Mondays.

The drivers said they could not transport passengers from the state to the commercial town of Aba in Abia State or Onitsha in Anambra State.

A bus driver in Ekeki park who identified himself as Tinder Victor said he had been plying the Yenagoa-Aba route for many years, but since the declaration of the sit-at-home order in the South East, he would not work on Mondays because going to that axis would amount to a suicidal mission.

He said most commuters and business people were always stranded every Monday due to the order, adding that the situation has affected prices of things in the state.

He said, “The Yenagoa-Aba route was the busiest, but now, people are afraid to travel there, aside from Mondays they declared sit-at-home.

“You know that most of the goods, particularly cloths we use here in Bayelsa, come from Aba or Lagos. People now prefer going to Lagos to buy their goods because of the security situation in the South East, so we have lost most of the passengers.

“I am planning to change my route to either Warri or Ugheli so that I can have good patronage.”

A driver in one of the commercial transport companies in Yenagoa said that when the sit-at-home started, he almost lost his life to hoodlums in Onitsha. He said the incident prompted the transport company to prohibit their vehicles from going to the South East on Mondays.

He pleaded with government to intervene and restore peace in the South East.

Transporters devise alternative routes

In Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, some business owners who rely on the South East for their goods, said they had been forced to suspend any business trip to the region on Mondays. They now use alternative means to source for their goods. Transporters also said the situation had affected their patronage; hence, income.

Daily Trust on Sunday gathered from Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) that the sit-at-home order has affected patronage, especially on Mondays and even forced the company to devise alternative means to tackle the challenge.

A staff of the AKTC, Mr Ubong Andem, who preferred to be silent on his designation as he was not authorised to speak for the company, said they lost patronage and income every Monday because of the sit-at-home order.

Andem said the company had suspended trips to the South East on Mondays but made use of alternative routes to convey passengers travelling beyond the region.

“The sit-at-home order has affected patronage. There are no trips to the South East on Mondays, so we have to use Warri if we are travelling beyond the region,” he said.

Another business owner, Emole Lovely, revealed that before the sit-at-home order, many of them travelled on Mondays to Aba and Onitsha to source for their goods as the cost of goods in the market was cheaper on that day.

Lovely, however, noted that the sit-at-home order had forced them to now embark on those business trips on Tuesdays or request that the goods be sent through waybill.

She added that to recover from the effect of the sit-at-home on Mondays, business owners now open their shops on Sundays.

“The sit-at-home order has really affected businesses here. We cannot travel on Mondays. Goods are cheaper on Mondays in Aba or Onitsha. As a result of this, we now travel on Tuesdays.

“If we cannot travel we request that the goods be sent to us, but the process is more expensive because we pay more for waybill, and the goods may not meet our requirements when they arrive,” she said.

Hike in prices of goods

As a result of the situation, a good number of traders in Cross River State, especially Calabar, who rely on bigger markets and wholesale dealers in Onitsha, Aba and Owerri, have had to increase the prices of their goods. This is because of the inability to re-stock their shops, while there are demands on the few available goods.

Mrs Rosemary Akpan, 49, a seamstress who often travels to Ariaria market in Aba to buy textile materials and other accessories said, “Sometimes when I want to travel to Aba over the weekend I will plan to accommodate Mondays or skip it. The fear of being caught up on Mondays in Aba usually scares me.

“Once I cannot meet up on Sunday I have to pay extra for a hotel, which is not even safe for me.

“We no longer travel frequently to Aba or Onitsha due to the risk on the road. There is the fear of being kidnapped or waylaid by these criminals,” she said.

She said one of her colleagues was attacked on her way back to Calabar, which left a permanent injury on her.

She called on security operatives to step up operation on the highway.

However, the IPOB has repeatedly urged residents to go about their normal lawful businesses on Mondays, warning that it would deal with anyone found enforcing the sit-at-home order, but the fear of the unknown has kept the five states of Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi in perpetual fear.

Shop owners groan over poor sales, lose millions in Kogi

Kogi State, particularly Lokoja, the capital, has its own share of the effect of the sit-at-home order in the South East.

The NATACO area of Lokoja is acclaimed as the business hub of the capital city due to the influx of travellers who stop over for final shopping before leaving for their various destinations.

Daily Trust on Sunday reports that most travellers from the South East are the driving force behind the flourishing restaurant business and others in the Kogi State capital. It was noted that because of the sit-at-home in the South East, these business owners are no longer smiling to the banks as they are currently suffering low patronage.

Petty traders like POS operators, fish, yam and akara sellers, as well as others, are not left out of the low patronage.

One of the restaurant operators in the area told Daily Trust on Sunday that millions of naira had been lost since the sit-at-home order started in the South East.

“Although we have been experiencing dull business climate for months due to harsh global economic climate, which has affected patronage, the Monday sit-at-home order in the eastern part of the country has worsened the situation.

“We now use Mondays as cleaning days. No vehicle comes by and no sale is recorded on such days. In most cases we don’t even open our restaurants for business on that day. The number of travellers to the eastern region has dropped badly.

“I cannot estimate how much we are losing here, but I can tell you that it is very bad. We are losing millions of naira for lack of patronage,” a restaurant operator who craved for anonymity said.

Some of them said they would open for business on Mondays from late evening and close in the early hours of Tuesday in order to beat down the present situation.

A fish seller at the ABC Transport loading point who preferred to be called Mama Jubrin said that before the lockdown order her average take home stood at N20,000 or N30,000 daily, but these days, she hardly goes home with N10,000 daily.

“Some of us have resolved not to come on Mondays. Sales are also dull on other days, apart from Mondays because people no longer travel as before, probably for fear of insecurity,” she said.

A newspaper vendor in the area equally lamented the dull patronage of national dailies due to what is happening in the South East.

Business owners who spoke to Daily Trust on Sunday appealed to the federal government and stakeholders in the South East to resolve the crisis before the economy of the zone and other affected places would be completely destroyed.

https://dailytrust.com/how-ipob-sit-at-home-is-destroying-south-east-others

Piggyyeaster1:
As seen in the screenshot below in 2015 "police is a potential target"
But in 2021 we are blaming DSS for killing the "target"

they now want to govern Zoo now
No be juju be that?

KingofAnambra:
They should check the nearest Peter Obi supporters camp, the man might still be there before IPOB behead him

Comrade you are right
#IGWELIVESMATTER

BaddestQueen:
Dear Nigerians as we're about to make another life decision that will make or mar us in the next 8 years or more, let's remember to make the right one.
after 8 years of misrule, I think we deserve a break from bad governance, deceitful politicians that thinks they can buy their way to power and hold us ransom for the next 8 years.
like I always say, suffering knows no tribe or religion but these politicians have made tribalism and religious sentiments take away our sense of reasoning.
no politician is a real Christian or Muslim because they're thieves and criminals which both religion condemns.
but they use this act to hold us to ransom every election making us to make bad decisions based on tribalism and religion sentiments each election period.
for example, Buhari is a Northerner but his misrule has affected all region he rules and I think the north are even the biggest victims of his misrules and incompetency.
Another election is here and they have rolled out their usual tribalism card to enslave us yet again.
but this time around we must resist them.
we're majority and I believe we can resist their few paid miscreants.
most of these urchins are based abroad where things works but they keep forcing incompetence on us just for their selfish interests or ego.
while I understand our diversity and need for power rotation, I also believe that there are gems in every tribe and it's the tribe's duty to produce that gem because we all will suffer the consequences if things goes south.
Nigeria is not a harlot that corrupt politicians can take TURNS in banging especially from the notorious desperate corrupt one screaming " MY TURN " like he can't wait to have his way.
it's our job to resist them.
we have to get this right.
the ruling party Apc has failed us
we cannot re-enforce failure.
let's shun tribalism and do the right thing.
God bless us all.

Lalasticlala myd44 seun
Rule 19

trutharena:
Tinubu the guy who increased workers salary among his contemporaries as governors back then.

the OP is Y1bo
A relative of Ika Ikweremadu precisely

This was the time FG stopped Lagos State allocation for Months

Police should hurry up before the Igwe is cannibalized

The traditional ruler of Isuokoma autonomous community in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Eze Ambrose Ogbu, has been abducted by gunmen.

The gunmen invaded the monarch’s palace on Wednesday night and whisked him away to an unknown destination, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

His abductors have yet to contact his family members.

A community leader, who did not want his name mentioned in the report because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the incident to our reporter in Abakaliki.

“He was kidnapped last night at his palace,” he said.

“But the kidnappers have not made any contact with the family nor the community. We have been waiting but no contact yet.”

The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi state, Aliyu Garba, confirmed the incident

He said the police were doing “everything possible” to locate and rescue the monarch.

Worsening security situation
Abduction for ransom is now one of the dominant crimes across various Nigerian cities.

Suspected kidnappers abducted a photojournalist, Uchenna Nwube, who works in Ebonyi Government House, early this month on Okigwe-Aba-Enugu Expressway. He was later released, apparently after ransom payment.

In Anambra State, still within the South-east, the beheaded body of a former lawmaker was found on Tuesday after gunmen abducted him.

About a month ago, a serving lawmaker in Anambra was similarly beheaded after gunmen abducted him.

Besides abduction for ransom, states in the South-east have been grappling with deadly attacks by armed men.

The attacks, which the Nigerian government blamed on an outlawed group Indigenous People of Biafra, often target police and other security agencies.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/538734-just-in-gunmen-abduct-ebonyi-monarch.html?fbclid=IwAR3-kPi2Cq25szqJ9DlUIAG-to0Qi_Pdg3NHSVzCCjUSyxBvVtOPwj2Tkbs

BaddestQueen:
mynd44 lalasticlala Seun
Rule 2

you too can hug one

CYBERSOLDIERSre:
Yorubads are evil.

Look at what they've started and now they'll acuse peter obis obi tribe for fighting back.

you can hug nearest transformer

Our aggressive brothers would not like this

Peter Peter Obi is Ibo project

fyneguy:
Lol na the structure dey that picture?

Chai, can someone enlighten these guys please?

we have been telling them but they don't listen to us

Peter Obi is an Ibo project

ChoCho54:
Shebi you said Igbos don't like themselves. Why are you eating your vomit?

Hausa will surely revenge what Peter Peter Obi did to them in Alambla

Judge this by yourself

Vulturereloaded:
The same one that met 35 billion debt, and left 75 billion in cash and investments.

he lack foresight
He could have used the money to build good hospitals, Airport, stadium, pay pensioners etc instead of allowing another person to squander it

CYBERSOLDIERSre:
That means you're a ghost already because Peter Obi is already the President waiting for handover.

even without "erection" ?

Jones4190:
I neva know say igbos plenty like this for nairaland, with dis dia way of attacking anybody dats against dia candidate, why can't dey attack UNKNOWN GUNMEN like dat and save many life...their power is only on twitter, nairaland & facebook

you nailed it