The Youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged market leaders in Onitsha, Nnewi, and Awka to collaborate with Governor Chukwuma Soludo in ensuring that all markets are open on Mondays.
Reacting to the closure of Onitsha’s main market on Monday by Governor Soludo, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, emphasized the need to utilize every strategic means to ensure traders open their shops without fear of intimidation or threat to life from gangs disguising themselves as enforcers of the sit-at-home order, which has been halted by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Igboayaka urged market leaders in Anambra, especially Onitsha Main market, to cease locking the market entrance every Monday, as it was seen as a form of political maneuvering.
“Those criminal elements enforcing Sit At Home are enemies of Ndigbo, sponsored to shut down the only means of survival of Ndigbo in Nigeria, which is commerce and trading,” Comrade Igboayaka revealed.
He noted that lgbo people have proven themselves to be accomplished business leaders, industrialists, and entrepreneurs, having endured the catastrophic consequences of the 1967-1970 genocide through an apprenticeship system that originated into Onitsha main market and spread to markets across Nigeria.
Accordingly, anyone claiming market leadership in Anambra who enforces market lockdown in Onitsha is, in reality, an adversary to the economic survival of Ndigbo.
“The Igbo people have demonstrated resilience through self-reliance and entrepreneurship, commencing businesses with a mere £20 since 1970, despite the Federal Government’s confiscation of their assets, leaving individuals and business tycoon with only £20 after the genocide against Ndigbo where Federal Government troop slaughtered 4.3m Igbos, regardless of their substantial pre-conflict bank holdings,” he said.
The Youth group noted that the bold initiative of Governor Soludo to permanently end Monday’s sit-at-home in Anambra State, especially in Onitsha,the economic hub of Ndigbo is an ideal that every progressive Igbo person and lover of Igbo political and economic liberation should support and applaud.
“I earnestly request that the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Department of State services (DSS), swiftly collaborate with Governor Charles Soludo’s administration to put an end to the Monday’s sit-at-home order that robbed Ndigbo 6b weekly and address any criminal elements enforcing the order, which is detrimental to the good reputation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) built by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Notwithstanding Governor Charles Soludo’s failure to meet our expectations as Governor of Anambra State, anyone who opposes his plans to end Monday’s sit-at-home in all the markets in Anambra State is an adversary of Biafran restoration and Ndigbo.”
