Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has celebrated an end to five years sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in the state, and other parts of South East Nigeria.

Speaking to State House Correspondents, after a closed-door meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Soludo said his administration has dismantled 62 criminal camps since he took office.

The Governor, vowing to end criminality in the State, credited the achievement to collaborative efforts of federal security agencies, including the Police, vigilantes and local outfits.

Professor Soludo lamented the close down of markets on Monday. He estimated weekly losses at 20% of the workweek for informal sectors — equivalent to one day shuttered in every five — compounding into forgone growth as investors fled from the region.

Soludo said Onitsha Main Market is the largest market in West Africa with over 45,000 shops. He said that last Monday’s reopening drew joyous crowds.

The Governor disclosed that Anambra’s security model blended the federal might – the Army, Navy, Air Force, DSS and the Nigerian Security And Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, - with state-level vigilantes, like the Anambra Vigilante, also called ‘agony chamber’, as well as anti-kidnapping units to achieve the feet.