Uzodinma shuts all commercial banks for not opening on Monday

Imo Gov Hope Uzodinma has made good his threat by shutting down all commercial banks which observed the last Monday sit-at-home-order by IPOB.

Customers were unable to carry out banking activities on Tuesday as those bank remained under lock and key.

Bank staffers said officials of the Owerri Capital Development Authority went round sealing the bank premises.

Earlier, the governor warned that the state would withdraw the licence of any bank that refuses to operate on Monday in observance of the IPOB order.

Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, confirmed the banks were sealed for disregarding the state’s warning

Emelumba said the failure of the affected banks to operate on Monday frustrated the efforts of the government.

According to him, the state will bear down harder on the banks and other businesses that observe the IPOB directive.

Mondays are now work-free day for many in the southeast following the IPOB directive last month, in protest of the detention of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB has cancelled the order, ut people are afraid to come out because of the violent tendency of the secessionist group.

Close to a dozen people died in the first intance the group enforced the order.