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Chairman, South East Governors forum and Governor of Ebonyi state, Chief Dave Umahi on Sunday evening said the zone loses over N10 billion in every sit-at-home the people of the region observe.

Since the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, the organisation has declared every Monday sit-at-home until he is released.

Umahi said in every of the sit-at-home, the zone lost over N10 billion and expressed dismay that the order was adversely affecting the economy of the region.

The governor spoke in Abakaliki, the state capital during a State Dinner in honour of the former Chief of Army Staff and Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Tukur Buratai.

He noted that the state would not subscribe to incessant calls for sit-at-home, insisting that any Civil Servant who was absent from work to observe sit-at-home, would be sanctioned.

“Evil will continue to thrive if good people keep quiet; we must make Ebonyi State very exceptional by rising to the challenges. When we shout true federalism, I say I agree but it should be istrative restructuring, Ebonyi State is not in of any State collecting VAT, we are in that FIRS should continue to collect tax and share.

“We are destroying our economy, the sit at home is not happening in South West, the North is not sitting at home, each time we sit at home, we lose over N10 billion in our economy, so Ebonyi State will not sit at home any day, so I charge the commissioners to go all out and ensure that Civil Servants come to work, and for the markets, I will personally be in the markets tomorrow, anyone who is no longer interested in owning shops can go home.”

The governor while urging the Nation Leaders to speak up against dissenting voices that are capable of polarizing the nation said he is open to debate with any PDP governor who feels he has delivered more democracy dividends to his citizens than the APC-led istration in Ebonyi State.

“People are taking special interest in Ebonyi State and her governor, positively and negatively but it is very important to be in the news than for you to say there are 36 states, you will name 35 and say what is the other state, we have aborted it, we are now a state to reckon with and we have no apologies.

“When I say I have no apologies, you can talk everything about me but you cannot say we have not delivered and so when people open their mouths in PDP to talk about APC, they should know that I belong to APC and if they like, let PDP offer any of their best governors to come for debate with me and I will defeat any of them, not to be talking and talking. You don’t sit on people’s sweat and resources and be talking nonsense.”

https://www.akelicious.net/south-east-loses-n10bn-every-sit-at-home-day-umahi-reveals/

I'm a Nigerian from Lagos State, I say no to sit at home in igbo land.

Mr Governor, if you don't like the sit at home then urge the federal government to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Who dey the lose.pls make it 100 billion.

Only?

One f the most sensible Igbo's out there. How can you protest only by hurting yourself while the effects has little or no impact in the central government.
What happened to protesting at the national assembly and aso rock.

Umahi Ana akogheri

The way this people call.money ehn! 10billion a day... Going by that I can imagine how much is made in a year...

That's how some people said over 200 billion has been lost due twitter ban... Yet there's no money in this country... We are the HQ of the poor ....
Make una fear God small....

This country no just balance

That's a huge lost there

It's an act of foolishness to keep on losing without gaining anything in return......If you're a gambler you'll Simply understand what I meant by that

Hmmm, This one is strong...

Coming from the ibo sold out Gomina,the hausa will use you and the dindin in imo And later fire your furo.
Ask Gowon and Obasanjo.

They should keep sitting. If possible sit at home for the whole year ?

Only a jobless miscreant will be happy about a MONDAY sit at home order.

Don't u have bills to pay ?

Of what use will the Monday sit at home order be apart from affecting the lives of people u claim u are fighting for adversely.

I saw a YouTube video yesterday where they chased students out of Exam Halls for refusing to sit at home. On a day they are writing English Papers.

Continue ing rubbish, na so Northerners started with Boko Haram, right now they are the one paying for it heavily for it.

You keep being useful idiots. How do u take the most productive day of the week and the day to sit at home.

That is the danger of being led by deranged and jobless touts for any cause at all.

There is limitation in their capacity to think. The few ones that managed to go to school have poverty induced blockage in their brain.

They can only do that with a stupid weakling of a Governor. Why didn't they give orders in Rivers State or after the actualisation of Biafra, Rivers go Arewa ?

Ass licking GOVERNOR

YOU will soon have running stomach from Ass licking

We like it like that...

This is ndi gbo business.. Other tribes souls stay away from it...

10 billion what, who calculated the lose?

All this sit at home has caused lot of damages for both the government and the private sectors.

I watched a video of how some men were abusing people who were just having their normal work. I vex tire.

Must you drag everybody into your Biafra movement.

How did he come about this figure?
But to be sincere with ourselves, the country is hard enough. Making people sit at home is wickedness on the part of those who survive on daily earnings..
At the same time, they shouldn't force this marriage called Nigeria.
Na forced marriage dey make people reason to poison each other o..

The losers are the terrorist security agents extorting and killing us..and there political accomplice.

Sit at home only makes sales increase on market days.. No hard feelings.
We're only agitating for the release of our only true leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu..

The sit at home is voluntary. Even IPOB called it off but we the people of the east insisted.
A sacrifice for our leader.

Leave them to continue sitting at home ..... For those who wants to sit at home voluntarily .... They can sit from now to December for the useless ekperima!!!


For those who wants to work , provide security for them and order a shoot at sight at any terrorist that tries to harass them ..... Any civil servant that refuses to come to work ..... Deduct a huge amount from his salary so that Body go tell am!!!!!

We want Biafra!!!! ..... But not through childish and stupid means

This guy just qouting figure anyhow.
Besides, they are doing it to pain Bubu

Timekeeper:
We like it like that...

This is ndi gbo business.. Other tribes souls stay away from it...

Only jobless bandit like u will like to sit at home on Monday.

No reasonable 'ndi gbo business' minded person will.

How e take concern you?!
Umarhi
See how conveniently he didn't speak about Onyendu Nnamdi Kanu's extraordinary rendition.
Umarhi will end up like Abiola

Quote me negatively and go to hell

Viva Biafra

Anf jow much is North losing economically,slow mind puppet of Fulanis.
Learn to be brave like akeredolu and orthom

You have not seen anything,
Shame to you all the South East governors,all of you ar mumu governor,you people ar here backing federal and be killing your people' none of you people can talk, shame!!!, see what is happening in northern part,killings everyday,but their governors protect them,
You people are looking for interest only,shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there has to be a brainwashing mechanism going on in APC, once you're initiated you begin to behave like some Zombiii

Hope they will blame the north for this in the future

Igbo's are simply tired of working on Monday. Besides , the situation politicians have kept Nigeria today is enough to make any normal human being behave abnormal.

I would be happy if all Nigerians will the east in sitting at home to protest the malistration and various institutional decay in the country. This is not just about biafra

By the time we will realize the harm we’ve done to ourselves with this sit-at-home... it would be too late, imagine after all the sit-at-home , they will adjourn the case to July 2022,sit-at-home continues... then u will know that this government doesn’t care if we all died in this south east, buhari tweeter content should have sent us a great message,old nigga don’t give a Bleep about Nigeria as a whole talk less of the ibos, we need to wake up in this zone.

Mrakeli:


https://www.akelicious.net/south-east-loses-n10bn-every-sit-at-home-day-umahi-reveals/

Only? Do you know how many people that die in a week because of bad Goverment ? .

This sit at home nonsense goes a long way in showing you how dumb these people are to reality.....common sense is not common!

They chased their own students writing exams away from hall

In the end,
the dumb terrorists in the South East will tell the students & their parents that it was Buhari & his Fulani brothers that made them lose one academic year for missing the NECO exams which the IPOB/ESN terrorists themselves forced the students, teachers & examiners out of exam halls & destroyed exam materials.
And they will believe!

And their contrived hate for Buhari & Fulanis will increase for no reason other than the wickedness of their own Igbo brothers against them.

That's the tragedy in this whole shameful & thoughtless foolishness!