Onitsha Market Impasse: Safety Before Orders; People Before Optics

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Gov. Chukwuma C. Soludo of Anambra State. By Ebuka Ukoh When Governor Charles Soludo directed traders in Anambra’s main markets to ignore the sit-at-home solidarity and resume normal six-days-a- week operations, many expected his government’s reassurances. They expected to hear a clear security plan. They expected to hear how lives and property would be protected. Instead, they saw the gubernatorial fiat. This moment demands careful reflection. Not on who is right or wrong in the larger political contest. Not on who is defiant or compliant. But what government owes its…

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