Throughout the ongoing two-week disobedience within the southeast area, the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has reported that greater than 250 individuals have misplaced their lives since 2021 because of the enforcement of the sit-at-home order.

Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the President Basic of the apex Igbo group, made this revelation whereas discussing the affect of the motion on residents of the South East on Tuesday.

Iwuanyanwu highlighted that the “unlawful order” has prompted untold hardships and resulted within the lack of lives and properties among the many Igbos.

“The South East is thought for its micro, small, and medium-scale enterprises, indigenous manufacturing, fabrication, and agro-allied industries. The enforcement of the sit-at-home order has prompted important monetary losses for the individuals, estimated at trillions of naira on every sit-at-home day,” he acknowledged.

He additional defined that the area has skilled a decline in purchasers and clients, who sought alternate options because of the unstable enterprise surroundings. Moreover, the transportation of meals to the South East has turn into costlier, whereas insecurity and the actions of unknown gunmen have worsened the scenario.

Iwuanyanwu went on to specific the grim actuality that over 250 individuals are believed to have misplaced their lives because of the enforcement of those orders.

You will need to notice {that a} fashionable separatist, Simon Ekpa, declared a two-week civil disobedience within the southeast from July thirty first to August 14th, 2023, in help of the discharge of the chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

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