Traders have pleaded with Senator Ifeanyi Ubah to refrain from urging them to do business at Nkwo Nnewi Market on Monday, saying that it is suicidal to do so..
The traders said going to the market to do business on Monday, a day that had been declared sit-at-home by the pro Biafra group, IPOB since 2021, would be suicidal as hoodlums might attack them.
Some traders who spoke to our correspondent on Thursday, were reacting to senator Ubah’s call to traders to do their normal businesses on Monday at the Nkwo Nnewi Market.
Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, the YPP Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District had reportedly urged traders who do business at the Nkwo Nnewi market to do their normal business at the market on Monday, allegedly adding that any traders who failed to open their shops for business on Monday at the place would risk the shops sealed.
“We were doing our legitimate businesses in the state before the declaration of sit-at-home by the IPOB. But the whole thing turned out dangerous. Today, we cannot do business on Monday. It is suicidal to attempt doing business on Monday”, Mr. Sunday
Ikeagor , a clothes dealer at Nnewi said.
Another who identified herself as Mrs. Nnena Sunday, a tailoring material dealer allegedly expressed doubt over the government and senator Ubah’s sincerity on ending the sit-at-home in the Southeast.
Mrs. Sunday who faulted some clauses in senator Ubah’s statement on the issue said that the best approach to the sit-at-home is dialogue.
She stressed that senator Ubah should organize a meeting of the senators and governors in the Southeast to dialogue with stakeholders on the issue.
“Everybody knows what is happening. We cannot deny the obvious. Telling us to go to the market and do business on Monday in any part of the Southeast, let alone, Nnewi is dangerous. They should not send us to death. If they want to end sit-at-home, they should hold a meeting of the senators and governors to dialogue with relevant stakeholders on the matter”, Mrs. Sunday said.
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