The Secretary to the State Government, Chidiebere Onyia, announced this in a statement on Thursday.
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has invited heads of various communities, groups and institutions to a town hall meeting on Saturday.Mr Onyia, a professor, said the meeting was “pursuant to the cancellation of the sit-at-home order” by the state government which took effect on 5 June.
Those invited to the meeting include religious leaders, traditional rulers, leaders of civil society organisations, leaders of transport unions and heads of banks as well as other financial institutions, heads of security agencies, leaders of neighbourhood watch and forest guard groups, vice-chancellors, rectors, and provosts of tertiary institutions in the state, market union leaders, members of hotel owners union, state leaders of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria and the National...
But PREMIUM TIMES reported that the civil action continued last Monday despite Mr Mbah’s pronouncement. But despite its suspension, residents of the five South-east states – Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Anambra — have been observing the Monday sit-at-home order, primarily out of fear.
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