However, some business places in the city were still shut on Monday despite government’s threat to permanently shut businesses that refuse to open in the name of observing sit-at-home.
There was confusion and a rowdy scene at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, ESUT-Parklane as workers crowded the office of the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Hypcinth Onah to sign an employee attendance log to prove they were at work on Monday (today). SaharaReporters gathered that the development was introduced after a meeting of various heads of government agencies and parastatals with the Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah as a measure to compel workers to come to work and break the yoke of Monday's sit-at-home in the state.
As part of efforts to ensure total implementation of the sit-at-home ban in Enugu State, Governor Peter Mbah toured various parts of the state capital on Monday to monitor compliance.
The dark days of dictatorial intimidation of the media may have returned to Enugu as Governor Peter Mbah has allegedly begun to implement a programme of indiscriminate arrest and intimidation of journalists for doing their job. Mbah, who is allegedly implementing this with the active collaboration of the Nigeria Police Force, on Friday, July 7, 2023, facilitated the arrest and detention of the publisher of News Centre, an online blog, Mike Ilediagu, by the anti-kidnapping unit of the Enugu State Police Command.
Shootings by gunmen suspected to be enforcing the one week sit-at-home order declared by the Simon Ekpa-led faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra threw residents of the commercial cities of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka in Anambra State into panic and confusion on Friday.