Residents of Imo State, particularly Orlu town and Owerri municipal, on Tuesday, stayed indoors to observe the sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in solidarity with its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who appeared in court today.

A DAILY POST reporter, who monitored the workout in the state, collected that the state secretariat, motor parks, schools, banks, stores and markets across the major cities were all closed down.

Even the Imo State University junction, Government House Roundabout, Control Post Roundabout, Warehouse junction Roundabout, Ikenegbu, Mbari, Douglas, Okigwe Road, and Wethedral Roads, were scanty.

In Orlu, the ever-busy Banana junction and Okwudo junction were more like ghost towns.

< img loading="lazy"class ="alignnone size-full wp-image-928187"src ="https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ghost-towns-in-imo-as-residents-observe-sit-at-home-for-nnamdi-kanus-trial.jpg"alt width ="1080"height ="486"srcset =" https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ghost-towns-in-imo-as-residents-observe-sit-at-home-for-nnamdi-kanus-trial.jpg 1080w, https://dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG-20220118-WA0043-300x135.jpg 300w, https://dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG-20220118-WA0043-1024x461.jpg 1024w"sizes ="(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px"> A reporter, Mr Martin Nwoke, while talking to DAILY POST at the popular Orji Youth bus drop in Owerri North Local Government Area of the state, made an enthusiastic appeal to the Federal Government to launch Nnamdi Kanu.

He said Imolites and the people of southeast states were the ones suffering the heat of the order.

Nwoke said, “In this part of the world, everything we do here includes money. I am begging President Buhari to pity us and complimentary Nnamdi Kanu.”

A legal representative, Barr. Emeka Obi, told our reporter that he might not go to submit a court procedure due to non-availability of transportation, while kids, who might not go to school, resorted to playing football on the streets at Akwakuma.