Residents Stay Indoors As IPOB Sit-at-home Order Grounds Activities In Imo

• According to reports, public and private offices, including banks, schools and markets were shut in compliance with the IPOB sit-at-home order

• Sources say security operatives mounted a road block at Orji Flyover on Owerri- Okigwe Road and on Aba- Owerri Road

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that economic and commercial activities were were moving at a snail’s pace on Monday in Owerri, the Imo state capital as residents stayed indoors in compliance with the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

According to reports, public and private offices, including banks, schools and markets were shut.

The ever-busy Wethedral Road, Imo state University junction, government house Roundabout, Ikenegbu roads and Douglas Roads were literally shadows of themselves.

Only a few roadside food and newspapers’ vendors were seen selling to people who came out to buy food and newspapers.

Sources say security operatives mounted a road block at Orji Flyover on Owerri- Okigwe Road and on Aba- Owerri Road.

The popular Alaba international market located on Owerri- Aba Road was reported shut and that artisans were seen waiting and attending to motorists on the roads leading to the market.

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While the Naza and Umuonyeali Wood markets were shut, the Naza industrial cluster market on Federal University of Technology- Federal polytechnic Nekede Road was open but with few people transacting businesses.

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