Massive Compliance of IPOB Sit-At-Home Order In S'East

Most parts of the South east observed the sit-at-home instruction handed by the Indigenous People of Biafra to commemorate the 50 years since the Nigeria-Biafra war started.

Activities slowed as vehicular movements were voluntarily restricted.

In Owerri, the Imo state capital, major streets were deserted, as handful of motorists and pedestrians were seen in the early hours of the day. Banks and other commercial outfits were locked up. And even some banks that opened, hurriedly closed up due to low patronage.

Reports from Onitsha and Aba indicated how there were massive observance of the order. The Onitsha Main market and the Ariaria market were completely deserted.

The leader of the secessionist group, Nnamdi Kalu, who was granted bail just a month ago had ordered that the people of the southeast and the south-south who formed most part of the defunct republic to stay at home.

Mazi Kalu, popularly referred to as Director, had prior to his arrest and incarceration by the Buhari government in October, 2016 had championed the resurrected agitation of the Biafran state through the Radio Biafra, where he held sway.

After several months in prison, Mazi Kalu was granted bail, severally but the government denied him, until last April when Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja granted him what was described by many as stringent bail conditions.

Kalu was asked to provide three sureties, worth  a hundred million naira each and must not be seen in a crowd of more than ten.

The Biafra war began on May 30, 1967 when Ojukwu, after consultation with the Eastern Consultative Assembly proclaimed the Republic of Biafra. The war which lasted up until January, 1970, claimed upwards of 3million lives, mostly children.