IPOB’s sit-at-home: Banks, schools, markets shutdown in Imo

Public institutions, including schools, banks and markets shut down in Imo State on Tuesday in compliance with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sit-at-home order.

Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in the State, reports that there was 80 per cent compliance with the directive.

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Many streets and roads in the capital city were deserted as residents observed sit-at-home for Nnamdi Kanu’s trial.

The State Secretariat, motor parks, schools, banks, shops and markets across the major cities were also shut down.

At the ever- busy Owerri-Aba road shops, filling stations were closed as few vehicles were seen plying the roads.

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The vehicles were subjected to thorough check by the battle-ready military personnel at the Akachi junction.

Residents at Orlu town and Owerri municipal stayed indoors to observe the order.

Even the Imo State University junction, Government House Roundabout, Control Post Roundabout, Warehouse junction Roundabout, Ikenegbu, Mbari, Douglas, Okigwe Road, and Wethedral Roads were scanty.

In Orlu, the ever-busy Banana junction and Okwudo junction were more like ghost towns.

A resident at the popular Orji Youth bus stop in Owerri North Local Government Area, Ambrose Nwane, made a passionate appeal to the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu.

He said Imolites and the people of Southeast states were the ones suffering the heat of the order.

He said: “In this part of the world, everything we do here involves money. I am begging President Muhammadu Buhari to pity us and free Nnamdi Kanu, there is nothing to gain in war but destruction. This, we want the president to consider in the ongoing trial.”

The situation was the same at Owerri Magistrate’s Court as the gates to the court premises along Orlu road was under lock and key.

Some lawyers said that they could not file court processes due to non-availability of transport while children, who could not go to school, resorted to playing football on the streets at Akwakuma.

The newspaper stands were closed as vendors could not operate in the State.

“No newspapers came to the state today (Tuesday) because of fear of unknown,” a vendor, Maxwell Onyia told our correspondent.

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