The people and residents of the South-East and South-South regions have been in jubilant mood since Saturday with the the news that the highest decision-making body of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the suspension of the Monday sit-at-home order that has continued to ground economic activities in the regions.
The Head of the Directorate of State for the pro-Biafra group, Chika Edoziem, had on Friday in a radio programme announced the suspension of the sit-at-home order in the region, which the group had imposed in an attempt to force the federal government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention since June, 2021.
Some of the residents of the regions said the announcement relieved them of the depression that the economic doom that greeted the sit-at-home order had caused them.
Reacting to the IPOB directives, a trader at Upper- Iweka Onitsha, who gave her name as Sister Edith, said the suspension was an intervention from God and not man. She said that the one-day sit-st-home action has been affecting a lot of business activities in the region without any benefit whatsoever.
“I prayed to God not to allow them to declare the action again. We are Igbo; the only occupation at our disposal is buying and selling, and any day we did not go out to trade or transact business, there will be no food for the family.
“I can tell you authoritatively that day, (Monday 9, 2021), a lot of businessmen/women across the South East region, lost millions of naira.
“I want political leaders in Nigeria to restructure the country; by so doing, the agitation for separation will come to an end in earnest,” Edith advised.
She also advised IPOB leadership to always consider the common people while taking their actions.
