Monday sit- at- home ends as commercial activities resume in Onitsha

Sit- at- home is over, go about businesses without fear, police tell Imo residents

THE Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye, has visited the commercial city of Onitsha to assess the security deployment, following the formal end of the Monday sit- at- home there.

Onitsha has been observing the sit- at- home since it was declared by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) some years ago, despite efforts of the state government to prevail on the people to go about their normal businesses.

During the CPS visit, he drove round the city and interacted with shuttle bus drivers plying the Upper

Iweka area to assess the restoration of commercial activities in the area.

The CP said that he was pleased to announce the lifting of curfew in Nnewi, Onitsha and Ogbaru by the state government, which was imposed during the security challenges in the three areas, urging them to be law- abiding and vigilant.

He also urged them to promptly report acts of crime to the nearest police station, while giving them telephone numbers to call for police response if the need arose. Adeoye said: “Your return to your businesses on Mondays shows an act of patriotism to the nation, and, in return, we assure that your safety is our responsibility.”

However, many markets in the city were yet to respond to the end of the sit- at- home, as it would take another Monday to know if everybody in the city had embraced the call to finally end the practice.

MEANWHILE, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, has told residents to go about their legitimate businesses on Mondays without fear of flouting the sit- at- home directive from the proscribed IPOB.

IPOB has been enforcing the sit- at- home in certain South East states for years now to protest the continued detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

Kanu is being prosecuted by the Federal Government for alleged treasonable felony, incitement and insurrection, among others.

Danjuma spoke, yesterday, while addressing officers of the command during a confidence building patrol.

Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa ( left); Director, Special Duties, Mrs Bona Fasakin, Director- General, National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC), Brig. Gen. Yushau Dogara Ahmed, and Cross River State Coordinator, Andrew Zemoh, during the DG'S visit to NYSC Orientation Camp in Obubra, Cross River State… yesterday.