NewsBiafra Remembrance Day: Situation Report of Compliance to Sit-At-Home Order In Enugu

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ENUGU — The Biafra Remembrance Day, May 30 every year was set aside in remembrance of millions of Biafrans who died during the three-year civil war in Nigeria.

The Republic of Biafra made up of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, existed from May 1967 to January 1970 during the Nigerian Civil War. After Biafra’s declaration of independence, Nigeria declared war on the nascent state; millions lost their lives especially children and the Biafran forces under Nigeria’s motto of “No-victor, No-vanquished” surrendered to the Nigerian Federal Military Government.

The year 2021 Biafra Remembrance Day fell on Sunday and the sit-at-home order was shifted to Monday 31st May, 2021 just like any other public holiday that falls on weekends.

The West African Pilot News Enugu bureau via telephone monitored Enugu residents’ level of compliance to the order in the coal city, Enugu metropolis;

Reports from areas within the metropolis revealed that there is high compliance to the sit-at-home order as shops, schools, malls, markets, and banks are all shut down; very few vehicular movements or persons are seen strolling on the roads.

“Doctors and nurses who are scheduled to be on call today got to the hospital earlier than 6am this morning so as not to flout the order but they were advised to have their Identification card at sight,” a consultant in a teaching hospital interviewed revealed.

Trans Ekulu, Abakpa axis, Gariki, Awkunanaw, Independence layout reports that people are safe at home; shops and markets are closed with very few persons on the road.

At Eke Obinagu junction, youths started a bonfire but a timely intervention of the traditional ruler, Igwe Gabriel Nnamchi Okoh, the Ochioha 11 of Mbulujodo Nike autonomous community, Enugu East LGA who mobilized the community to disperse them before the Nigerian Army stepped in; no life, however, was lost.

Unfortunately, discomforting news reaching us says that at Coal Camp and JJC bus stop Artisan market, two policemen were reported killed respectively.

No noise of plane taking off was heard at the time of filing this report.

 

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