Peter Mbah-led government of Enugu State has sealed businesses in and around the Enugu metropolis for failing to open on Mondays.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the government had banned the Monday sit-at-home directive declared by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which had vowed to continue to protest the incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian government despite various court judgments ordering his release.
Recall that in a statement issued on Saturday, the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, reminded residents and business concerns in the state that the ban on the illegal Monday sit-at-home order remains effective.
He said markets that fail to open to customers on Monday shall be shut down indefinitely.
“Given this, civil servants, schools, markets, financial institutions, business premises, and others, are hereby directed to resume normal activities on Monday.
“Government restates its resolve to apply sanctions against defaulters of its cancellation of the illegal Monday sit-at-home order in the state.
“Markets that fail to open to customers on Monday shall be shut down indefinitely. Shops in the markets that close on Monday shall be sealed and re-allocated to those eager to do business in the state. Government extends the same warning of sanctions against schools, financial institutions, shopping malls, department stores, business premises, and others that may defy its directive,” he had said.
On Monday, a video showed a group of a task force from Governor Mbah’s office sealing departmental stores at Spar Market, Enugu.
Watch the video below:
