Igbo community in Cross River State, comprising traders and others, has decided to close their shops and suspend their services for two days to protest the rampant kidnap of Igbo people doing business in the state.
Operating under the aegis of Igbo Unity Forum (IUF), the group complained that at least 35 business men from Igbo extraction had been kidnapped in the last one year, and that they had been forced to cough out hundreds of millions of naira as ransom for them to regain their freedom.
At a press briefing in Calabar early in the week where they lamented their plight in the hands of the kidnappers who have made their lives and business environment most uncomfortable, the coordinator of IUF, Okechukwu Ebubedike, said a date for all Igbo business men and women to close shops throughout Calabar metropolis and its environs in protest against the incessant kidnap of their members would soon be announced.
Ebubedike disclosed that the decision to close shops and shut down their business for two days was taken at an emergency meeting attended by all major stakeholders and members of town unions of the Igbo extraction resident and doing business in the state.
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