IPOB sit-at-home: Hoodlums set ablaze motorcycle spare parts-laden trailer in Enugu
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Hoodlums suspected to be enforcing sit-at-home order Eluagu Obukpa, in Nsukka, Nsukka local government Area of Enugu State on early hours of Monday set ablaze, a trailer laden with motorcycle spare parts.
The trailer, it was gathered, was conveying the motorcycle spare parts from Nnewi in Anambra State to Kabar in Kogi State.
Sources said the hoodlums numbering about 6 who masked their faces were saw the vehicle parked along the road and immediately poured fuel on it and set it on fire.
“They were chasing some tricycle operators picking passengers along that road when they saw the vehicle parked along the road. Nobody is inside that vehicle when they hoodlums set it ablaze, I suspected the driver ran way, “one of the sources said.
Mr Fabian Eze, the trailer driver while narrating his ordeal, said he parked his vehicle and was observing the sit-at-home when the hoodlums came and burnt the vehicle.
Eze said: “I left Nnewi on Sunday night but parked in Eluagu by 6am for fear of being attacked by IPOB members since every Monday now was observed in South East as sit-at-home. I parked the vehicle, I and my conductor left to find where we can find something to eat.
“From where we are looking for something to eat, we saw people running from main road shouting a big vehicle parked on main road has been set on fire by hoodlums.
“I and my conductor rushed to the main road only to see our vehicle is completely burnt,” he said.
Eze said everything in the vehicle was lost to the fire.
“Even N210, 000 in the vehicle we are using to run expenses also burnt. The spare parts we have in the vehicle belong to many spare parts traders in Kabar in Kogi State and it worth about N30million.
“I am afraid if the owners of the vehicle and spare parts will tell me to pay for the burnt vehicle and spare parts,” he said.
The State Police spokesman, Mr Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident but said information surrounding the incident was still sketchy, but said preliminary investigation had commenced.
Meanwhile, residents of Enugu State have continued to observe the sit-at-home despite that the IPOB’s high command had suspended it.
Our Correspondents who monitored that the exercise said business activities were crippled as banks, schools, markets, offices were shut.
Again, Ebonyi residents observe sit-at-home order in Ebonyi
Meanwhile, the suspended sit-at-home order directed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is still being obeyed in Ebonyi State, as findings, Monday, revealed.
On Monday, September, 6, businesses activities were crippled in the State.
A greater percentage of workers failed to report to work and traders refused to open their shops in the State.
This is fourth Monday that residents of Ebonyi State and the entire South-East zone, would be observing the order, after IPOB announced that suspension of the sit-at-home order, on August 10, 2021.
Our Correspondent who monitored the situation in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, gathered that banks, markets, shops and filling stations, were shutdown.
Also, all commercial banks in the State including Access Bank; Fidelity Bank; United Bank for Africa; First City Monument Bank; Ecobank; Key Stone; Stanbic IBTC; Zenith; and other banks did not open for business.
Similarly, major transportation firms in the state did not open for business.
