BAN ON SIT-AT-HOME IN ENUGU: Enugu Governor Peter Mbah’s Pinnacle Oil Closed For Business On Monday

Pinnacle Oil and Gas belonging to the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, was among businesses that failed to open in the state on Monday, in compliance with the “sit-at-home” order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

Governor Mbah, whose company owns about three petrol stations in Enugu, had shortly after his assumption of office on May 29, 2023, banned the illegal sit-at-home order, a development that has been blamed for the orgy or kidnapping and other forms of criminal activities that has pervaded the state in the past two months.

The refusal of Mbah’s Pinnacle Oil petrol stations to open for business on Monday is happening just one week after the governor supervised the sealing off of over 100 shops at Ogbete Main Market and other businesses in Enugu metropolis for shutting their doors on Monday.

The traders and other Enugu residents protested against the state government’s action on Wednesday, leading to the murder of three protesters by security agents trying to disperse the protesters on government orders.

One of those shot dead was a young man, Bonaventure Nwodo from Iheaka in Igbo-Eze South LGA, who was said to have recently returned from Dubai, and had just opened a new business at the Ogbete Market.

Enugu residents who got wind of Pinnacle Oil’s observance of “sit-at-home” have condemned Mbah’s hypocrisy and double standard.

“Why wouldn’t Pinnacle filling stations be sealed off today?” Jeffrey Ejemba said. ” This boy Mbah is not a leader at all. So”, he makes one law for himself and another law for other Enugu residents?”