Reacting to the closure of the Onitsha’s Main Market on Monday by Gov. Soludo, National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Igboayaka Igboayaka, emphasized the need to utilize every strategy means to ensure traders open their shops without fear of intimidation or threat to life from gangs disguising themselves as enforcers of the sit-at-home order, which has been halted by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Igboayaka urged market leaders in Anambra State, especially at the Onitsha Main Market to cease locking the market entrance every Monday, as it is seen as a form of political protest.
“Those criminal elements enforcing the sit-at- home are enemies of Ndigbo, sponsored to shut down the only means of survival of Ndigbo in Nigeria, which is commerce and trading,” Igboayaka stated.
He noted that lgbo people have proven themselves to be accomplished business leaders, industrialists, and entrepreneurs, having endured the catastrophic consequences of the 1967-1970 Civil War through an apprenticeship system that originated into Onitsha Main Market and spread to markets across Nigeria.
Accordingly, he asserted that anyone claiming to be market leaders in Anambra State who enforces the market lockdown in Onitsha is, in reality, an adversary to the economic survival of Ndigbo.
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The youth group said the bold initiative of Gov. Soludo to permanently end the Monday’s sit-at-home in Anambra State, especially in Onitsha, is an ideal that every progressive Igbo person and lover of Igbo political and economic liberation should support and applaud.
“I earnestly request that the leadership of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Department of State Services (DSS), swiftly collaborate with Governor Charles Soludo’s administration to put an end to the Monday’s sit-at-home order and address any criminal elements enforcing the order.
“Notwithstanding Governor Charles Soludo’s failure to meet our expectations as governor of Anambra State, anyone who opposes his plans to end Monday’s sit-at-home in all the markets in Anambra State is an adversary of Biafran restoration and Ndigbo,” the group said.
