Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate Majority Leader has said that residents of the South East are suffering form the unending sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB which has now been hijacked by faceless criminals.
Abaribe said the sit-at-home was borrowed from the Ambazonia agitators in Cameroon which has destroyed the economy of that area.
Speaking in a webinar hosted by Osita Chidoka, former Minister of Aviation, he said that what is going on in Ambazonia is a very difficult thing and if it continues in Igboland, everyone is going to suffer.
“They no longer go to school there. They no longer go to markets. They no longer carryout any economic activity. In other words, the governments that they are fighting against at the central part of Cameroon has ignored and abandoned then.
“I think there should be a change in strategy. There is no way we can continue like this and it will be good for Ndi Igbo”
The Senator said that Igbo people outside Igboland do not exactly understand what is happening in the region, adding that the sit-at-home is pinching residents of the region very much.
He said “People outside Igboland usually come to Aba, stay in hotels and over the weekend, buy things and leave on Monday. They No longer come but are looking for alternative places to go to.
So, all the incomes people make from customers that they have, these customers have gradually started getting their supplies from elsewhere outside Igboland. And you know what is going to happen with this? In the next 3,4,5,6 months, anybody who has created an alternative source of getting whatever he wants, will not come back and that closes up that whole place entirely. So, it’s a very difficult situation for us as Ndiigbo”
