The Enugu government claims to have apprehended several hoodlums who were executing an illegal week-long sit-at-home order in the state.
Chidiebere Onyia, the secretary to the state government, stated this in a statement on Thursday.
Those involved in scaremongering through phony films and photographs, he said, had been hunted down, detained, and were being prosecuted.
Mr Onyia requested that workplaces, schools, business sites, and marketplaces, including Ogbete Main Market, ignore the sit-at-home directive on Friday and remain open for business.
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Failure to comply with this direction, he cautioned, would be interpreted as wilful sabotage of government policy and efforts to restore full working days, productivity, and entrepreneurship in Enugu, and would be dealt with appropriate punishments.
“The Enugu state government wishes to remind citizens and residents of the state that work, business, schooling and other legitimate endeavours will continue on Friday, July 7, 2023. Government urges members of the public to disregard any scaremongers and go about their businesses, as security measures are fully in place to continue to enforce law and order and safeguard lives and property,” said the statement.
It added, “It is noteworthy that many enemies of Enugu state and Igboland, the hoodlums, anarchists, and criminal elements, hide under freedom agitation to perpetrate destruction, violent crimes. We are winning the war and therefore call on Ndi Enugu to volunteer information to the authorities on any suspicious person and movement as well as those who use the social media to spread rumours and instigate panic among the members of the public.”
IPOB Reacts Over Rumour Of Week-Long Sit-At-Home In South East
Simon Ekpa, the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), proclaimed a one-week sit-at-home order in the South-East to demand for the release of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu.
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