{"id":130,"date":"2024-05-30T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=130"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:59:24","slug":"ipob-sit-at-home-order-yields-total-compliance-as-traders-others-lock-down-businesses-to-honour-past-biafran-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/ipob-sit-at-home-order-yields-total-compliance-as-traders-others-lock-down-businesses-to-honour-past-biafran-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOB sit-at-home order yields total compliance ……. as\u00a0 Traders, others lock down businesses, to honour past Biafran heroes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    By Emeka Obi (Awka)<\/div>\n
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    Sequel to earlier warning by the Public Relations officer of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB),\u00a0 Emma Powerful to the Vice Chancellor UNI-ZIK,\u00a0 Prof. Charles Esimone, and West African\u00a0 and the general public on the need to observe a one day Sit -At – Home order today (Thursday May 30th) as Remembrance Day Celebration in honour of Biafran fallen heroes, residents of Onitsha, Nnewi,Awka among other communities in Anambra state\u00a0 shut down their businesses.<\/div>\n
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    Recall that that IPOB Image maker had in a letter to the Vice Chancellor demanded postponement of the University convocation ceremony and WAEC examination scheduled to hold today,\u00a0 saying “it is a date IPOB earmarked to celebrate Biafran heroes.”<\/div>\n
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    The letter reads in parts,”The attention of the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by the indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to your proposed University’s convocation date on 30th May, 2024 and WAEC examinations to Kindly reschedule your convocation and exams to a new date because 30th of May is the Biafra Heroes Day and a sit-at-home for ALL Biafrans in the Biafra Land.<\/div>\n
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    “Dear VC and WAEC board,<\/div>\n
    If you consider yourself a Biafra, you ought to know that 30th of May is a Biafra Heroes Day. Nevertheless, we are reminding you and the University Management and WAEC board that May 30 of every year is a sacred day set aside to honour Biafra heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate prize and sacrifice for the survival of Biafrans.<\/div>\n
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    ” That day remains sacred and a day that Biafrans sit-at-home to remember and honour our heroes who fell during the Nigerian genocidal war against Biafrans between 1967 to 1970 until the present day the killing has not stopped. No public event is expected to take place in Biafra Land on this day. Biafra Heroes Day is a public holiday and a sit-at-home in Biafra Land for Biafrans in honor of our fallen heroes and heroines.<\/div>\n
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    “All markets, schools, banks, government and private offices are expected to be under lock and key.<\/div>\n
    Movement of persons and vehicles are not allowed except those on essential or emergency services such as health workers, ambulance, fire Service, filling stations, hospitals etc.”<\/div>\n
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    Investigation by Daily Echoes revealed that there was total compliance to the Sit At Home order Anambra state.<\/div>\n
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    An Anambra\u00a0 State based activist, comrade Damian Ogudike, who is the Abia State coordinator of Congress for Civil Society, and scores of residents of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka, have described today’s sit-at-home order in memory of fallen Biafran heroes as total lockdown in the state.<\/div>\n
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    According to Ogudike, “All markets in Onitsha that is the hub of commercial activities were shut down, including courts, schools, offices, abd major roads were no longer go- areas. The ever busy Onitsha-Owerri road, notorious Upper Iweka, Ochanja round about and many other places were shut down.<\/div>\n
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    “I have never seen this type of IPOB sit-at-home order before, where people willingly sit in their homes without being forced to do so. They were so relaxed discussing and chatting with drinks before them as if they were celebrating.<\/div>\n
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    “There is nothing bad in people asking for freedom, in developed countries it is done and the problem is that Nigeria is steel far from what we described as freedom, may God help us,” he prayed.<\/div>\n
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    Also the Nkwo Nnewi triangle was a ghost area today as even the Nwanyi Nnewi, (motor cycle), was no where to be seen as roads that include the bank road, Ozubuku-Nnewi road, among others were deserted.<\/div>\n
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    Mrs Antonia Maduhukwa, told this reporter that, “I am a food vendor but didn’t cook because according to her, ” I predicted the total lockdown in Nnewi and other places in Anambra State. It is good to show solidarity to our fallen heroes. Those that died for us should be honored,<\/div>\n
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    “It is not by force to participate in the sit-at-home exercise but as people with conscience we have to do that because we are related in one way or the order, you can see that as mark of solidarity that all markets, shops, banks, schools and\u00a0 offices were shut,” she stated.<\/div>\n
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    However, inter state commercial vehicles that came into Anambra State from Delta State were seen parked along the ever busy Onitsha\/Asaba\/Benin highway in Onitsha, waiting for 6pm to pass through Onitsha even if nobody ordered them to do so.<\/div>\n
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    Those living in Okpoko, near Onitsha are in high spirit as they are celebrating the D-Day over some bottles of beer and palm-wine with their wives and children dancing to thrill them.<\/div>\n
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    However, security operatives that included the police, vigilante group, military, among others patrol to and from Onitsha, in search of miscreants that may use the opportunity to cause catastrophe on the good people of the state.<\/div>\n
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    By Emeka Obi (Awka) Sequel to earlier warning by the Public Relations officer of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB),\u00a0 Emma Powerful to the Vice Chancellor UNI-ZIK,\u00a0 Prof. Charles Esimone, and West African\u00a0 and the general public on the need to observe a one day Sit -At – Home order today (Thursday May 30th) as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,4],"tags":[33,74,35,76,75],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-life-style","category-law-crime","category-politics","tag-biafra","tag-fallen-heroes","tag-nigeria","tag-remembrance-day","tag-sit-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}