Some hoodlums suspected to be enforcing the sit at home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) have  killed a trader and set ablaze his goods worth millions of naira on Monday 6th September 2021 in Onicha, Ebonyi state .

A source who is closed to the victim disclosed that the victim  is from Ezza in Ebonyi state and he is the highest plastic and stainless dealer at Eke Okposi market in, Onicha, Ebonyi state. The source stated that the victim was informed that the sit home order has been cancelled ,and was called to come and supply goods to a customer, on hearing this he left his residence at Igboeze with his six apprentices ,only for them to be intercepted by some hoodlums who claimed to be enforcing the sit at home order. Without giving him and his boys opportunity to explain themselves the man and five of his boys were butchered and his goods set ablaze ,just one of his boys was able to escape with wounds.

The sources also disclosed that the victim is a hardworking young man who built his business from scratch. He said he began his business by hawking plastics and stainless with truck in the town of Onicha for years before he secure a shop and currently is one of the biggest plastic and stainless dealer in Eke Okposi market, Onicha.

“But today this man was butchered and slaughtered like an animal including his boys at Anike-Ọnịcha before getting to Uburu. Only one managed to escape with wounds. His cars and goods were set ablaze. The question is, who do us this?  Are we going to get our freedom by killing ourselves? If that is freedom, I am not interested in it. I think these people using this avenue to perpetrate this evil should be held accountable. This is barbaric and condemnable. How can you kill your brother, destroy him, destroy his goods and claim you are fighting for freedom? I know this man in person. If you really know him, you will understand that he’s a free man who doesn’t look for trouble. He’s a hustler and also a victim of bad leadership and everything everyone is passing through. Now, the overzealous idiots have killed him, claiming he faulted sit-at-home order”, the source said.