Editorial Board
The violently enforced sit at home orders will end the economy of Igboland if Igboland does not find a way to end it. On some occasions, a full week is lost to these orders. According to the Onitsha Chambers of Commerce, trade in the commercial nerve of Igboland has gone down by almost 40 percent. The case is not different in Nnewi, Aba, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi. The effects on education and social life of the people is unquantifiable.
The federal government has shown that it does not care if we die or live but the inability of the five South East governors to come up with strategies that will enable people go about their business shows leadership vacuum in the region. That vacuum has sadly been filled by non-state actors, leaving everyone at the mercy of criminals. Sitting in the comfort of their walled government houses to bark orders at the people to go about their business while they also sit at home is not working. They have to lead the movement of defeating these monsters.
On the other hand, the people enforcing these orders are not ghosts. They live within our communities. We all have a role to play to ensure that killings and destruction of livelihoods does not become the norm in Igboland.
The sit at home must end.
