Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Saturday revealed that the leader of the Indegenuos People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, told him while in detention that he neither ordered nor knew about the Monday sit-at-home which has continued to be observed in the Southeast.
He said that it was unfortunate that businesses were now relocating to other regions as a result of insecurity in the region.
“What is happening in the Southeast is a tragedy. Every Monday people sit at home in what they call ‘Holy Monday’. What is holy in making people suffer like this?
“IPOB has said countless times that they are not the ones enforcing the order. We don’t know who is enforcing it, neither does it seem like we have a way to solve it.
“I went with Ike Ekweremadu and two bishops to the DSS to see Nnamdi Kanu and he told us,
‘I have never said people should sit at home’. I told him that nobody believes you outside. Because people have said they don’t like it but they keep sitting at home.
“There is no way we are going to survive like this. You are sitting at home and the people who you are doing these things for are in Lagos and in Abuja and everywhere and they don’t care. And you are here killing your own.
“Aba is known for bringing and opening containers of imported goods on Mondays. So, the problems we’re having today is that because of the sit-at-home, people now go to Port Harcourt, Uyo and Calabar to open their containers. They’re leaving Southeast and moving out to Lagos. When we all leave, who will you blame? The captains of industry are no longer there”, Abaribe said.
He lamented that the insecurity of the Southeast had assumed the biggest problem of the region.
“Insecurity in the Southeast is the biggest problem we are facing now. And the sooner we tackle it the better for us. Even if you are seeking a separate country, why would you destroy your own place with your hands? You need to have a viable country and not a scattered one”, he said.