IPOB Sit At Home Order Forces Abuja Transport Companies To Avoid Eastern Route

Abuja transport companies are avoiding all Eastern routes following the sit at home directive issued by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra.

The directive was in remembrance of the lives lost during the three years Biafran War of 1967-1970.

But the recent killing of an All Progressive Congress Chieftain, Ahmad Gulak, in Imo State may have also fueled the caution.

“We can’t risk travelling down the East with the tension and the sit at home directive,” a driver at Peace Mass Transit at Plot 480/483, Ajose Adeogun Street, Off Obafemi Awolowo, Jabi, Abuja told a customer who went to deliver a waybill to a client in the East.

A business man who gave his name as Emmanuel Ejike told our correspondent that he would not take the risk travelling to the East on Monday.

Also speaking, a driver in Ifesinachi Transport Company said they have busses schedules for Tuesday when the tension will become less.

“We have busses to every other location, but we don’t have a single morning bus to the East because of Biafra’s ‘sit at home directive’.

“It is not because of the death of Gulak. But we will have a night bus that will take commuters to the East on Monday,” a representative at Ifesinachi Motors Ltd told THE WHISTLER on phone.

Along the Utako axis which is a kind of industrial park for most Abuja transport companies, no transport company visited had a bus travelling to the South-East including the Sienna drivers that scout for passengers by the wayside.

Ejike said, “I am not able to deliver a waybill to my client who is supposed to pay me in turn. This is the first time I am disappointed with this client.”

This is one of the disruptions that businesses will have to cope with in the country, especially businesses linked to the Eastern region.

At Plot 925/926 Ishaya Audu Close, Beside GTBank, Jabi, Abuja, where Akwa Ibom Transport Company is located in Abuja, the manager said, “We don’t take Enugu route to Akwa Ibom. We go through Cross River. That is why we could send out some busses to Akwa Ibom.”

NAOWA Transport Company that runs transport schedules from Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State to the Federal Capital Territory told the website that it has suspended all operations in the region until Tuesday following the sit at home order.