Sit at home: Business paralyzed in Onitsha as residents obeyed IPOB sit at home order

www.odogwublog.com reports that despite calls and assurance of protection from the Nigeria Police force, residents of the commercial city of Onitsha listened to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and obeyed the order of sit at home issued by IPOB yesterday as all markets, schools and banks in the city were closed completely for business .At Awka tension was high because police blocked one lane near the police headquarters and prisons as Army , police mount guard.

As part of its measures to further protest against continued detention of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by Nigeria government IPOB last issued an order mandating the people of the southeast to sit at him yesterday 23rd September 2006.

The residents of Onitsha complied fully with the order as traders shut all their markets. Both the popular Onitsha main market and other markets in and around the city like the Bridge Head, Ochanja, Ose Okwodu, Ogbaru, Main Market, New Parts Nkpo and the rest of them were completely closed for business.

Other institutions and social economic sanctuaries like the schools, banks, street traders did not also open for business. Commercial and private motorists, okada riders and Keke NAPEP operators also deserted the roads making the city to look like a no man's land.

Major roads in Onitsha like Awka road, Oguta road, New and old  cemetery roads, New Market road Old market road were all empty paving way for children to have a field day having fun playing street football.

A market leader in Onitsha who didn't want his name in print said that people may have decided to sacrifice whatever profit they would have made in the day to close their shops and offices to allow peace to rein.

According to him "people have to stay at home to avoid being victims of security measures or what they do not know about. In some cases security agents may make mistake to shoot and arrest people who do not even know anything what is happening"

The Authority gathered that residents decided to stay at home to avoid falling victims of a possible clash between Biafra protesters and security agents who started patrolling round the city few days ago.

Meanwhile the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has hailed Ndigbo (Biafrans) for complying and adhering to our National demands.

 MASSOB in a statement issued by Comrade Uchenna Madu which Authoirty obtained in Onitsha   said that "our calls and demand for a civil disobedience against Nigeria state is for the general interest of Biafrans. MASSOB gladly salutes the the people of Biafra for their love, confidence and trust bestowed on IPOB, MASSOB and other Biafra agitating groups

"The effect of today's (yesterday) civil disobedience further proved that MASSOB and IPOB are Major factors to be reckons with in the affairs of Ndigbo and Nigeria in general.      
                                           
Madu said that MASSOB is demanding for the immediate and unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi KANU, Benjamin Onwuka, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and other detained pro Biafra agitators in Nigeria prisons mostly in Onitsha and Awka

The MASSOB leader, said that the more these Biafran Jews are detained, Nigeria will continue to experience economic, political and diplomatic phenomenon that always cripple her system of existence.

He added "We see the heavy downpour that crippled scanty activities in Onitsha as a divine intervention and endorsement by Chukwu Okike Abiama (God of Abraham). 

"MASSOB sees President Buhari as our pharaoh of Egypt who stubbornly refuses to harken unto the voice and instructions of his servants but decided to challenge God,

"MASSOB warn that soon Nigeria will start experiencing the horrors of God's wrath because of her Persecution, killings, marginalization and dishonouring of the Biafran Jews.