Members of the pro-Biafra group, Biafran Zionist Movement (BIM), sent a strong message on Wednesday as their sit-at-home order was adhered to in most parts of the South East with Onitsha and Aba, the two busiest commercial cities in the zone most affected.

Commercial activities in Anambra and Abia States were paralysed as most shops remained shut all day. Umuahia also witnessed complete compliance to the order. Civil service states like Enugu where they attempted to occupy Government House and Ebonyi however witnessed a semblance of activities as the some shops in the states were opened for business.

The compliance by mostly traders, our reporters gathered, were borne out of fear of being attacked and their shops being vandalized by the Biafra agitators.

Meanwhile, the Enugu State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested the leader of the pro-Biafra group, Biafran Zionist Movement (BIM), Benjamin Onwuka alongside 21 of his members.

The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu that the suspects were arrested within the Enugu metropolis based on intelligence information.

Onwuka resurfaced Wednesday with some members of his proscribed group and attempted to take over the Enugu State Government House and other state institutions by hoisting the outlawed Biafra flags and engaging in assemblage close to such places.

Amaraizu said that the suspects had been helping police operatives in their investigations.

Onwuka had been standing trial in the court over his alleged role of murder, armed robbery and unlawful possession of firearms.

The order prompted the deployment of many police operatives to strategic places within Enugu State.