MASSOB orders Ndigbo to stay at home August 28

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

We are victorious, yes we are victorious!! glory be to God who has given us Victory!! Hip! Hip! Hip! Hurrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Long live Biafra!!

[Abraxas]

Originally Posted by ALORAINIDDEVIL

We are victorious, yes we are victorious!! glory be to God who has given us Victory!! Hip! Hip! Hip! Hurrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Long live Biafra!!

Hi, folks!

We are victorious, yes we are victorious!! Glory be to God most high, who has given us Victory!!

Hip! Hip! Hip!

Hurrayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.


Long live the Democratic Republic of Congo! Long live the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Akunakuna!! Long live Queen Lizzy XXII of the North Sea!

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Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)

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MASSOB’s sit-at-home flops
•22 members arrested
•Uwazuruike blames coordinators, insists it was successful
By VAL OKARA, Owerri, MATTHIAS NWOGU, Umuahia, GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka and NWABUEZE OKONKWO, Onitsha
Friday, August 29, 2008


Yesterday’s sit-at-home order declared by the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) was marked by apathy in the South-Eastern states, considered to be the stronghold of the group.

Reports from the states indicated that business and commercial activities went on smoothly in Owerri, Imo State, Umuahia, Abia State, Awka, Anambra State as well as Enugu and Abakaliki, in Enugu and Ebonyi states respectively, while there was heavy security in the commercial cities of Onitsha and Aba, apparently to forestall possible breakdown of law and order.

Twenty two suspected members of the group were arrested by the police at Ihiala, Anambra State for allegedly trying to disrupt movement of the people. The MASSOB enthusiasts were said to have been picked up for allegedly blocking the roads and ordering people to return home.

However, MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike said contrary to claims that the exercise was a total flop, it was successful in Enugu, Anambra, Abia and Ebonyi States. While he admitted that the sit-at-home order failed in Imo state, he, however, blamed the coordinators for doing a shoddy job.
In Owerri for example, commercial and other activities went on uninterrupted. Shops, schools, filling stations and markets opened for business, while commercial vehicles plied the roads undisturbed. Some residents who spoke with Daily Sun even claimed ignorance of the order. Rather than tag the sit-at-home a total failure, Uwazuruike told Daily Sun the aim had been achieved.

His words: “The stay-at-home was strictly observed in Anambra, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi, but it failed in Imo because the coordinators did not carry out the instructions properly. Although we did not achieve 100 per cent success, the aim has been achieved to an extent,” he concluded.
Reports from Umuahia, Abia State capital and the commercial city of Aba revealed heavy presence of policemen, armoured tanks and patrol vehicles on the streets.
Daily Sun also gathered that for fear of possible harassment, traders did not display their wares early in the day. But with the re-assuring presence of law enforcement agents, they opened their shops shortly after.

It was also gathered that those who had stayed away from the various markets later began to arrive when there was no sign of any harassment.
Further investigations revealed that while government offices were opened with the officials at their normal duty posts, some banks asked their customers to come back from 12 noon.
According to a security guard at one of the commercial banks in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, the reason for the delay in the opening of business was part of the security measures employed by the bank’s management to watch the development and avoid any ugly situation.

However, reports from Aba was different as most markets, including the popular Ariaria international market, Ekeoha shopping mall, and the New Market, among others, including commercial banks were locked, while the traders stayed away for most part of the day.
Some of the traders, who spoke with the Daily Sun, said they were fed up with the activities of the MASSOB enthusiasts, whom they accused of causing unnecessary tension in the South-East geo-political zone.

Mr. Okereke Okoli, a trader at Umuahia main market, said he had to wait for several hours before he could decide to open his shop for business, because of the need to avoid any embarrassing situation or loss that might arise from non-compliance with the sit-at-home order.
At the Railway Relief market in Umuahia, a dealer in fairly used dresses, Mrs. Ifeoma Anibeze, said she had to be in the market because that was her source of livelihood. Anibeze said she could not afford to stay at home just because MASSOB had so directed.

She further queried the rationale behind the operation of commercial vehicle operators who were doing their business unhindered, while the traders and government officials were directed to stay at home by MASSOB.
Reports from Aba had it that the situation in the commercial city was understandable because Aba and Onitsha are strongholds of the MASSOB struggle.
http://http://www.sunnewsonline.com/...8-2008-002.htm

[denker]

[RAYNOSA]

MASSOB protest successful in Abia, shunned in Imo, Enugu, Anambra
By Ben Duru (Umuahia) and Emmanuel Nzomiwu (Enugu)

Only the residents of Umuahia stayed at home for a couple of hours on Thursday as directed by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), which did not really amount to much, as office workers and traders alike in Owerri and Enugu did not bother at all.

Heavily armed policemen as well as armoured tanks and patrol vehicles were on the streets in Umuahia to forestall a break down of law and order.


But there was no report from the 17 councils of Abia State of the harassment of members of the MASSOB .


Initially, traders did not open their shops, but around midday some changed their minds and service providers, such as vulcanisers, resumed business.


Some government offices had been opened as early as 7.30 a.m. though without the full complement or workers.


The same thing could not be said of commercial banks in Umuahia and Aba, where the majority of them remained under lock and key. Customers were turned away by security guards.


Residents of Enugu defied the sit-at-home and went about their normal businesses even with a heavy downpour that lasted all through the day.


The big markets in the city, including Ogbete, Kenyata, and Artisan, were opened.


Civil Servants reported to work at the federal and state secretariats and other government offices. Workers in the private sector also reported for duty.


The directive also recorded failure in Owerri as people went about their private and official businesses.


Reports from other parts of Imo State said market men and women, including owners of shops and supermarkets, also ignored the order.


In government offices, there was no sign that there was an action by a group that needed to be obeyed as workers turned out as usual.


The Owerri Main Market, which was locked up between 6 a.m to 12 noon, later opened for business activities without restrictions.


Some banks and other financial institutions in and around Owerri were closed in the morning hours, but had to be opened when the officials saw that there was no threat.


Reports from Anambra also indicated that normal activities went on unhindered, as traders, artisans and office workers went about their normal businesses.


MASSOB leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, said: "My men in the Imo zone did not do enough work; in fact, they did not carry out enough public enlightenment on the action. The reports I have been receiving across the nation show that our sit-at-home order is recording huge success. If you go to Aba, Onitsha, Nnewi and Enugu including non-Biafran lands like Lagos, Abuja and Kaduna as well as Kano, the order recorded a total success."

[VOR]

SEVERAL shops especially at Cable Point axis of Asaba, Delta State capital were closed yesterday as members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) observed the stay at home order

Investigation by our reporter showed that traders who are staunch members of MASSOB own most of the shops while others were closed for fear of any breakdown of law and order.

So non MASSOB owned business operated as usual once they were assured that there will be no violence? hmmmmmmmmmmmm, I guess not all are on the same page with MASSOB?