Gunmen suspected to be Indigenous People of Biafra and the Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) members, who tried to enforce Monday sit-at-home order, yesterday, attacked commuter buses, tricycle and motorcycles at Ezzamgbo junction in Ohaukwu Local Council of Ebonyi State.

As joint security operatives intensify patrol Indigenes and residents of Imo State, yesterday, partially observed the sit-at-home order. They largely stayed indoors until about 12:00 noon before a handful began to open their shops, offering skeletal services to their customers. Meanwhile, security operatives also intensified their patrol and guard duties in the nooks and crannies…

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, rued the impact of sit-at-home in the South East, saying that over 250 people have been killed through the enforcement of the order since August 2021.

Despite Imo State government’s directive, residents, yesterday, largely stayed away from their shops and business premises for fear of being attacked. Government had directed residents to shun Simon Ekpa’s sit-at-home order and go about their legitimate businesses or risk having their shops sealed.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday confirmed the authenticity of the handwritten note by its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to Simeon Ekpa ordering him to stop calling sit-at-home on his behalf in the South East region.

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One person was killed and several others injured as traders of Ogbete Main Market, Enugu State, took to the streets, yesterday, in protest against the sealing of shops by the state government, due to non-compliance with Governor Peter Mbah’s ban on sit-at-home.

By 9th August, this year, it would have been 730 days since the South-east region began to observe the weekly sit-at-home exercise as declared by proponents of separatist state of Biafra, to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

For the first time in several months, full academic and business activities resumed in Enugu State, yesterday, as the government intensified efforts to eradicate the sit-at-home order imposed by Biafra agitators.

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, yesterday, said that in the last two years, about N4 trillion has been lost to the sit-at-home order in the South East.

Despite the presence of soldiers patrolling every nook and cranny of Owerri, the Imo State capital, yesterday, residents still complied with the sit-at-home order declared by a faction of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) led by Simon Ekpa.

Police detectives have killed a five-man gang of gunmen who attempted to enforce an illegal sit-at-home order in Enugu on Friday.