The Anambra State Government has expressed frustration over the continuous Monday sit-at-home despite governor Chukwuma Soludo orders against the excersise.
The governor had in a statement warned that any market in Anambra that failed to open for business on Monday risk being closed for additional one week.
Reacting to the disobedience to the order by the Nnewi Auto Spare Parts Market, Nkwo in the commercial city of Nnewi, on Monday, the governor ordered that the market be shut for one week.
The governor, through his Special Adviser on Trade and Markets, Chief Evarist Uba, issued the closure order during an on-site visit to the market.
Uba, who was in company of the state Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor and Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, AVM Ben Chiobi(Rtd) and the Chairman, Nnewi Local Government Area, Echezona Anazodo, warned that that the market may face further closure if compliance is not substantial by next Monday, when the market reopens.
He said, “The Anambra State Government hereby informs the general public that the New Auto Spare Parts Asocciation Market, Nkwo Nnewi, is closed for business.”
The market, whose date of closure is effective from midnight today, Monday, February 23, 2026, will reopen next Monday, March 2, 2026.
“The closure of the market followed low compliance with the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo’s order to end Monday sit-at-home in Anambra State.
“Traders and customers are advised to avoid the market until next week.”
The sit-at-home order, previously issued by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), to protest the incarceration of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was observed every Monday accross the five states in the southeast region.
However, the order has since been rescinded by the separatist group, but the people of the region, who are predominantly Igbos, continued to sit-at-home.
