Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that residents who choose to stay at home today (Monday) are free to do so.
The Indigenous People of Biafra had ordered the stay-at-home, an order that Umahi had earlier asked people not to obey.
In a statement by his media aide, Frank Nweze, on Sunday he said he had received requests from people who chose to remain indoors.
It read:
e had threatened to lock up the shops of whoever refused to go out.
In what however appeared to be a change of mind, David Umahi, on Sunday made a U-turn over the sit-at-home order by he said on Sunday that there were requests to him by people who wanted to remain indoors.
It read: “Following the foregoing, the Governor, David Nweze Umahi, who is highly in touch with the people, has directed that those who may wish to remain at home with their shop(s) locked should neither be penalised, nor their shop(s) seized as it is their constitutional right while the rights of those who may wish to go about their normal businesses should not be infringed upon as it is equally their constitutional right.”
