By Phil Okose, Onitsha
The Tuesday sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was more of a total lockdown compared with the normal Monday sit-at-home exercise, as the roads and some major streets were completely deserted.
In places like Main Post office, where free newspaper readers normally gather, it was a ghost area.
The Nkpor Junction that hosts artisans and labourers was a complete desertion.
Mini street markets that normally open about noon on each Monday sit-at-home exercise remained shut and deserted.
Some of the tricycle (Keke) operators that defied the Monday sit-at-home order and few commercial buses were nowhere to be seen.
Reacting, a tricycle operator who pleaded anonymity, told this paper that, “We are scared. Today is a special day and hoodlums may capitalize on the arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu in an Abuja court to commit crime.
“Again, the attack on Senator Ifeanyi Uba by unknown gunmen last Sunday still puts fear on the residents as scores were reportedly killed. Who wants to die, my brother?”
Meanwhile, shops, markets, hospitals, courts, banks, schools, among others, remained shut and most roads deserted.
As of the time of filing this report, people were seen trickling out in front of their residential houses even as vehicular movement, especially buses and tricycles, were restricted to the interior areas by the operators themselves.