This was even as Enugu traders and residents told the governor that they were tired of sitting at home, describing it as a plague killing their businesses and household economies.
Mbah, who took time to interact with business owners, shoppers, traders as well as civil servants at the State Secretariat, said “it should never be heard that we were cowed because of the threat of violence by these criminals”, noting that “the poverty that will befall us for sitting at home will kill us even faster”.
To the traders at Ogbete, Garki, and other markets, he however warned that locking shops on Mondays would no longer be condoned. Meanwhile, the market leaders and business owners assured the governor that they were now ready for full compliance, saying they were already sick and tired of the Monday-sit-at home.