![]() It was the same situation at the Asaba end of the Niger Bridge Head, the border between Anambra and Delta States, near God is Good Transport Company terminal and Edegbe Transport Company, as soldiers and Police men of “Operation Delta Halks, OPDH, were seen conducting similar checks on pedestrians and few motorists on essential duties without any kind of harassment and intimidation of the people and occupants. There was no single gun shot by the soldiers or Police men seen patrolling the roads and streets of Onitsha. ![]() Nobody was harassed, intimidated or maltreated. However, at the Niger Bridge Head, an exit from Onitsha to Asaba, soldiers mounted check points and few pedestrians coming in and exiting Onitsha, were made to properly identify themselves before crossing. Thousands of touts normally seen within the ever busy Upper Iweka, Iweka Road, Lagos Park, Owerri Road, Obodoukwu Road, Uga Junction, Atani Road and Niger Bridge Head, Niger Street and all the streets around Onitsha Main Market and other major markets in Onitsha and Edo Ezenewi, Bank Road, Owerri Road all in Nnewi, were nowhere to be seen. ![]() When Vanguard moved round the ever busy and congested Upper Iweka, all the motor parks of major transporters, like The Young Shall Grow, GUO Transport Company, Ifesinachi Transport Company, ABC Transport Company, MIC Merah Transport Company and others, including private motor parks contracted to individuals by Anambra State Government, were deserted with no passenger seen for business. In the past, street shop owners would be seen hanging around their shops to conduct sharp business transactions with their customers just as artisans did, but in this 2021 sit-at-home, traders, artisans, business owners and shop owners did not come out of their homes, let alone visiting their shops or offices to hang around for any possible business transaction. Markets, banks, public and private schools were closed. ![]() Roads and streets in the two busy towns of Anambra State were totally deserted as no economic, political, religious, cultural and social activities took place in the cities, as residents stayed indoors to observe the day.` Onitsha, the commercial city and Nnewi the industrial town of Anambra State witnessed unprecedented compliance to the sit-at-home directive by the Indigenous Peopke of Biafra, IPOB, in celebration of Biafran Day and to honour Igbo heroes and heroines killed during the Nigerian Biafra Civil war. The ever busy Onitsha- Enugu expressway of the Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge leading to Awka the Onitsha -Owerri road express way, leading to Owerri, Nnewi and Okigwe were all ghost of themselves as no single vehicle was seen. Petrol and gas filling stations were not opened for business as streets and roads, shops and artisans in major cities and rural communities shut for the day.Īll the roads leading in and out of southeast states were ghosts of themselves as residents stayed away from them in obedience to the Biafra groups’ directive. ![]() Government offices and banks were not opened for business as they were under lock and key. The order recorded total compliance and success across all the states in the region with the residents and business outfits complying totally with the directive.Īll business activities were shut down, all markets were under lock and key, public and private secondary and primary schools were shut down. IPOB, through its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, had earlier said human and vehicular movements would be restricted across the South-East to mark the 54th anniversary of Biafra. …Socio-economic activities paralyzed in Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Asaba, Rivers …Empty streets in Umuahia …Business centres shut, roads deserted in Aba …Total compliance in Enugu, Ebonyi …Hoodlums set motorcycles, vehicles ablaze in Ebonyi …Obiano erects Cenotaph in remembrance of Biafran Heroes …Nnamdi Kanu commends Obiano, Ugwuanyi, Ikpeazu, Umahi, Okowa By Vincent Ujumadu, Festus Ahon, Chidi Nkwopara, Chinonso Alozie, Ugochukwu Alaribe, Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nwabueze Okonkwo, Ikechukwu Odu, Chinedu Adonu & Steve OkoĬommercial activities came to a halt yesterday across southeast states and sections of south-south as residents deserted the streets in compliance with the sit-at-home order issued by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. ![]()
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