Simon Ekpa’s Sit-At-Home Order Flops In Southeast

Many residents of the five Southeast states went about their normal activities yesterday in defiance of the one-week sit-at-home order allegedly declared by a faction of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Most markets, schools, banks, offices and streets boomed, unlike the hesitancy witnessed on Tuesday.

Simon Ekpa, the leader of Autopilot, a faction of the IPOB, had, in a statement on June 14, announced that there would be a one-week sit-at-home in the region.

Ekpa, a self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile, said the sit-at-home would hold from 3 to 5 July and continue from Friday, 7 to 10 July.

He said it was aimed at demanding the “immediate and unconditional release” of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is in Federal Government detention.

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But the sit-at-home order failed across the states, while attempts by hoodlums to enforce it, mostly failed.

In Enugu, the state government said an attack by the hoodlums was repelled by the police.

The Nation reports that public activities were booming in the state capital, Enugu, before panic started at about 10.30am, following rumours of shootings in some parts of Enugu by would-be enforcers of the order.

But senior special assistant to Governor Peter Mbah on new media, Reuben Onyishi, said the accompanying videos of shootings in some parts of the state were fake.

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According to him, the hoodlums who attempted to enforce sit-at-home order in the state, were “capably engaged and their target operation foiled, whereupon they took to their heels in their Sienna bus, seeking to escape. They are currently on the run as the security men are on their trail”.

“They had tried to replicate what reportedly happened at Ishieke, Ebonyi State on Tuesday in Enugu this morning, but were capably repelled by a crack team of the security agents who had proactively pre-empted their targets.”

He said claims that there were shootings in Abakpa or Emene were being circulated by mischief makers on social media to scare the people.

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