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The Enugu State Government says it will sanction schools and businesses that were obeying ongoing two-day sit-at-home declared by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra.
Chidiebere Onyia, the secretary to the state government, stated this at a joint press conference addressed by the government and security chiefs after a tour of schools, businesses, financial institutions, and markets in Enugu on Monday.
The security chiefs are the garrison commander, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Brigadier-General Steven Dogo; and director of the State Security Service in Enugu, Theresa Egbunu, the police commissioner in Enugu, CP Anayo Uzuegbu.
Recall that the factional Leader of IPOB, Simeon Ekpa, had declared Monday and Tuesday sit-at-home in the entire South-East.
Mr Onyia said that for those teachers and private or public schools that had decided not to show up to school on Monday, the Enugu government, as a policy, would ensure that they are sanctioned adequately.
He appreciated people of the state for resisting the sit-at-home warning by people they described as “enemies of progress,” saying they had shown that Enugu had since gone beyond that stage.
Mr Onyia promised that the government would ensure more security presence if only to reassure the people, stressing that the government would visit sanctions on schools, markets, and institutions that defy the ban on sit-at-home.
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