The day one of the two weeks sit-at-home order given by the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Finland-based lawyer, Simon Ekpa met low compliance in most of the cities in the South East region of Nigeria.


In Umuahia, the capital city of Abia State and the home town of the IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, economic activities were on top scale defying the sit-at-home order.

The major roads within the city including; Aba/Umuwaya road, Owerri road, Lagos street, Uzuakoli road, Warri street and the popular isi-gate bubbles with movement of people and business activities without any fear or tension.

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu who also represents in the green chamber, Bende federal constituency, Abia State decried the Sit-At-Home in the region. He noted in a meeting with Ndigboamaka Progressive markets Association in Lagos, that Monday sit at home order has paralysed businesses and hampered economic growth of the five eastern States.

The federal legislator says,

"The existential threat to Igbo entrepreneurship and business now is the insecurity and sit-at-home problem in the South East. The mutation of the problem is largely unfathomable. It is becoming a cankerworm that is eating deep into our collective fortune as a people"

"We cannot afford to retreat from our business endeavors. The Stay-at-home order on Mondays has resulted in staggering losses of #4 trillion Naira in the last two years in the South East alone according to statistical data"