Emptied Ebonyi road, Thursday
Sit-at-home: Ebonyi completely shuts down
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital and its environs were on Thursday completely shut following the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The separatists group had declared sit-at-home to protest the arrest and the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the supreme leader of the group, whose trial came up on Thursday at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Our Correspondent who monitored the situation in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, gathered that banks, markets, street shops, filling stations, schools, eateries, supermarket, and others, were shutdown.
No private and public school was in session as all the schools were closed without any pupil, student or teacher seen.
The commercial banks also removed all the Nigerian flags at their premises, for fear of attacks.
Also, major transportation firms in the State such as Peace Mass Transit, Eastern Mass Transit, Romchi Mass Transit, etc, did not open for business.
There was no movement of vehicles on major roads including the Abakaliki/Enugu; Abakaliki /Afikpo highways and other major busy internal roads including Afikpo and Ogoja roads.
Government offices were empty as workers failed to come to work. Entrance and exit gates of the state high court was under lock and key when our Correspondent visited.
All the filing stations in the state did not also open for business.
However, security agents were seen in groups in their hilux vans patrolling round the metropolis and outskirts of the town
