The Catholic Education Council issued a directive, citing security concerns, announcing that schools would no longer hold on Mondays. Students were advised to stay home and resume on Tuesday, November 26.
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Ken Chukwuegbo, Principal Secretary to Governor Peter Mbah, said this on Monday at the Federal Secretariat in Enugu.
He said this when he received members of the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence.
The Anambra State Commandant of NSCDC, Maku Olatunde, stated this in Awka, on Monday while monitoring the deployment of personnel for its renewed launch operations to encourage economic and commercial activities and combat the effect of Monday’s sit-at-home.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the attack, at Obikabia junction in Aba, was reportedly carried out by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in a bid to enforce sit-at-home.
The IPOB had designated every May 30, as “Biafra Hero Day Remembrance”, ordering people of the South-East to respect and observe the day by staying at home.
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has embarked on a confidence-building patrol, while urging residents to go about their lawful businesses unhindered and without fear on Mondays.
Echeng gave the charge during a familiarisation tour of the Imo command in Owerri on Thursday.
Enugu Government has again urged the State’s residents to disregard Monday’s sit-at-home order by the factional members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and go about their normal businesses.
The Anambra state Government, under the leadership of Gov. Charles Soludo, has vowed not to obey directives from non-state actors on any illegal sit-at-home order.
The Command dismissed the rumour, noting that residents of the state should ignore the false information.
The shooting was carried out as the suspects forced people to abide by the order issued by the proscribed IPOB.
The gunmen were suspected to be enforcing the seven days sit-at-home declared by a separatist group.
The order, the Police disclosed was declared by one Simon Ekpunobi based in Finland started last Saturday and scheduled to end Friday.
The sit-at-home was initially ordered by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, which has declared an end to it.
Mbah made the appeal on Thursday while listing out the decisions reached at the end of his first security council meeting with the heads of all the security agencies at the Government House, Enugu.
The group made this known in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Monday.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Spokesperson of the State’s Police Command, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, in Abakaliki Monday.
Though IPOB, which gave the order across the entire South East had cancelled it, some are still observing it.
The directive was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the President of ASSBIFI, Olusoji Oluwole.