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Former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, has kicked against the continued observance of the weekly sit-at-home in the Igbo-dominated South East geopolitical zone.<\/p>\n
According to the politician and elder statesman, the economic hardship in the region, which had been linked to the sit-at-home, is taking an ugly dimension.<\/p>\n
Anyim spoke at the South East Economy and Security Summit organized by the Imo State Government.<\/p>\n
The sit-at-home is being observed every Monday in the region and enforced by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, particularly the faction loyal to Finland-based Simon Ekpa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must emphasize that the circumstances that led to the Biafra agitation in 1967 are not the same as what is happening today,\u201d the former Senate President said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is estimated that hundreds of lives and hundreds of billions of naira have been lost to the sit-at-home order and its enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cLife has become very difficult in the South East and almost every successful person in the South East is in self-exile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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