By Festus Fifen.

The Executive Governor of Enugu State Mr. Peter Mbah on Thursday said the Monday sit-at-home tradition that became a norm in the South-Eastern states of Nigeria for sometime now has been banned in Enugu state.

Speaking to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa Abuja, Peter Mbah says this decision became necessary in order for him to fulfill his campaign promises to the people of enough state.

According to him, ” We’ve banned sit-at-home on Mondays in Enugu and obviously, what that means is that we will, of course, need to, you know, heighten our security, tackle the challenges that would flow from that, and, you know, essentially that’s what I have come to do.”

Speaking on the freedom of the self acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Peter Mbah said ” we also of course, talked about the release of Nnamdi Kanu. You know, that the South East has made a collective demand to have Nnamdi Kanu released. And we basically identified with that and request, Mr. President, who in his inaugural address promised the people that he’s going to engender national healing and he’s going to serve with compassion.”

Peter Mbah also added that one of the reasons he visited the president was to hint him on the numerous natural resources in Enugu State which can be harnessed in collaboration with the federal government.

” You may also know already that we made massive campaign promises to the people of Enugu. And we also have expressed humongous vision. We’ve taken a bold view of what the new group could achieve in the next four years, in terms of growing our economy from the current levels to $30 billion.

” And one of our core governance philosophy is to collaborate and to have partnership, and we have identified the federal government as our core partner. We have a number of dominant assets in Enugu which we believe partnering with the federal government, we’re able to transform them into productive assets.

” A lot of people do not know, but we have huge mineral resources in a new group. And these resources are sitting under our ground not being productive. So we believe with the partnership we’re trying to basically build with the federal government, we’re able to transform these assets into productive assets.

” the growth level we have proposed is one that is going to be driven by private sector and private sector want the ease of doing business and one of the core indicators of the ease of doing business is security and infrastructure. So we also had that conversation with Mr. President.”