IPOB sit-at-home: Tension as traders, Soludo clash over Monday

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There is tension in Anambra State as traders and leaders of the Onitsha Main Market face a dilemma on Monday when the government will reopen trading activities.

This is due to the threat issued by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra last Friday against the resumption.

In a statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafran group had called on traders, transporters, banks, schools, civil servants and other sectors across the Southeast to observe what it described as a peaceful solidarity sit-at-home on Monday.

The group said the order was a response to Governor Charles Soludo’s week-long closure of the market.

Soludo shut down the market because of the observance of the Monday sit-at-home.

Powerful said that decision was “designed to break the spirit of peaceful civil disobedience that has highlighted the injustice of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention despite sham proceedings.”

However, the Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, on Saturday, said the enforcement of the sit-at-home order had transitioned from a political protest to a criminal enterprise. Punch