The Enugu State Government has threatened to shut down schools and markets
observing a sit-at-home order enforced by the proscribed Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB).
In a statement on Tuesday by the Secretary to the State Government, Chidiebere
Onyia, it says proprietors of private schools in the state sent messages to their
pupils and students to the effect that they should not come to school on account of
the illegal one-week sit-at-home order declared by faceless non-state actors in the
state.
It added that the State Government is alarmed and dismayed by this development
and hereby warns that any school that fails to open and function normally with
immediate effect will have its license revoked, while all markets and shops in state
must be open to customers or be shut down indefinitely.
The government also warned that it will deploy the full instrumentality of the law
such as the Cybercrime Act 2015 to go after and prosecute individuals and
organisations encouraging the illegal sit-at-home order, which it describes as evil
and antithetical to all values the people of the state hold dear.