Residents of Enugu State, southeast Nigeria returned to their normal routine socio-economic ways of life on Tuesday, after Monday’s lockdown following the sit-at-home order by the Proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.
The outlawed separatist agitation group had directed people of the Igbo-speaking region of Nigeria to observe May 31, 2021, as a Day of remembrance for the over 3 million easterners who died in the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.
The civil disobedience which recorded a near hundred per cent compliance, grounded all activities in Enugu City with schools, government, and private offices, markets, shops, banks, petrol stations, among other public places, shutdown.
The roads and streets were empty throughout Monday as motorists, commuters, and all forms of transportations kept off the busy roads.
But early Tuesday, the usual activities came back to life in the coal city. A visit around the Enugu metropolis showed that commercial activities had fully picked up.
From the popular Obiagu junction through New Heaven to Abakpa Nike, civil and public servants, traders, motorists were seen attending to their various engagements.
Recall that on Monday, 31st of May 2021, the predominantly Igbo speaking people of the South East region had observed the sit-at-home exercise to mourn their loved ones who died in the unfortunate Civil War which broke out following the declaration of the independent state of Biafra from Nigeria some 54 years ago.
