We Don’t Want This Illegal Sit-At-Home, Enugu Youths Protest

Enugu youths have stormed the streets in protest of the sit-at-home order being foisted on the South-east state by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB).

They made their stance known in both a symbolic street march covering a number of streets in the state, accompanied with placards carried by many of them.

 “The illegal sit-at-home is causing so much havoc and making our education, health and economic institutions not to function optimally and our people are counting their losses both as individuals, groups and corporate entities”, said Leader of Enugu Innovative Youths, Mr Maduabuchi Edeani.

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“We as youths in Enugu State are supporting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his stance to stop and totally cancel the illegal sit-at-home being engineered by a misguided Nigerian in Finland.

“We are here to let the world know that anybody supporting the illegal sit-at-home is against the South-East, good people of Enugu State and the future of youths in the state and South-East in general.

“I call on all youths in Enugu State and South-East to desist from supporting the anti-progressive, evil and illegal sit-at-home.

“It remains a wrong path and it will not do anybody any good, rather it will truncate our future and prospects in life as youths,” he added.

“Sit-at-Home discourages economic progress”, said one placard; “Even Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is Against Sit-at-Home” added another.  

Speaking further in condemnation of the forced sit-at-home order, Edeani said efforts should be made to stop it.

At the same time, he bemoaned the manipulation he said was going on in the region, but appealed to the Federal Government to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

This he said would be in obedience to a court which had ruled for the release of the activist.

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According to him, releasing Kanu would help to checkmate the selfish interests of some people and also end the manipulation which the region had been subjected to in the recent by some selfish individuals.