…Residents mock governor’s hypocrisy
By Emmanuel Okwara
Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah’s
Pinnacle Oil and Gas Ltd was among businesses that failed to open in the state on Monday, in compliance with the “sit-at-home” order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Governor Mbah, whose company owns about three petrol stations in Enugu, had shortly after his assumption of office on May 29, 2023, banned the illegal sit-at-home order, a development that has been blamed for the rash of kidnapping and other forms of criminal activities that has enveloped the state in the past two months.
The apparent compliance of Mbah’s Pinnacle Oil petrol stations with the Monday sit-at-home order of IPOB to open for business on Monday comes a week after the governor supervised the sealing off of over 100 shops at Ogbete Main Market and other businesses in Enugu metropolis for shutting their doors on Monday.
The traders and other Enugu residents protested against the state government’s action on Wednesday, leading to the killing of three protesters by security agents trying to disperse the protesters on government orders.
Enugu residents who learned of Pinnacle Oil’s observance of “sit-at-home” have condemned Mbah’s hypocrisy and double standard.
“Sit at home” has been observed in the South-East of Nigeria, for two years now, as a protest against the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is still held by the DSS even after a court has discharged and acquitted him.
