The weekly site at-home protest ordered by the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) to press home their demand for the release of their detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from SSS custody, held again in Enugu on Monday.
Kanu was extraordinarily rendered to Nigeria since June and has remained in SSS custody despite having been arraigned before a court of law that turned down his request for transfer to a correctional facility.
Consequently, the Ghost Monday protest continued with even a threat of intensifying to a weeklong affair if Kanu is not unconditionally released and charges against him dropped.
This is even as South-East governors and leaders had pledged to end the protest some three weeks ago.
Ohanaeze had decried the proposed weeklong protest billed to commence November 5, less than 24 hours to the Anambra State governorship election slated for November 6.
IPOB had reportedly been opposed to the holding of that election and had recently narrowed it down to Kanu’s release, stressing that if he was not released, the scheduled election would not hold.
As in other editions since Monday, August 9, 2021, when the protest started, markets, shops, supermarkets, motor parks, garages, schools, offices, banks, filling stations, eateries, restaurants and other public places were all shut, while roads and streets were bereft of the usual vehicular movements and snarls.
There have been security patrols by combined teams of vigilante, neighbourhood watch group, civil defence, police, SSS, and soldiers among others.
There has been no violent report except that which involved the Nollywood ace producer, actor, director and erstwhile Chairman of Nkanu West LGA of Enugu State, Hon Afam Okereke.
He was reportedly kidnapped on Sunday by hoodlums at Obigbo Rivers State on his return to his Enugu base after producing a film there.
According to m his family, his abductors had made contacts, demanding a ransom of N10 million.
