IPOB’s Sit-At-Home: Customers Stranded As Imo Shuts Banks 

Hundreds of bank customers were left stranded yesterday as the officials of the Imo State Government shut all the banks on Bank Road in Owerri, the state capital.
Some of the banks that were sealed by the state government were Access, Polaris, First Bank, Eco Bank, and United Bank for Africa. 
The banks were sealed with customised ribbons by the state government officials as early as 7 am, with hundreds of banks customers seen waiting at various banks as at 9am unattended to. 
Some of the staff of the banks who pleaded anonymity said that the banks were sealed by operatives of Owerri Capital Development Authority sealed 
The Tide reliably learnt that the banks sealed were those that failed to open on Monday, in compliance with the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, in protest of the detention and trial of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal Government. 
However, some government officials said that the banks were sealed because of building approval plans. 
The Imo State Government is yet to clear the air on this development as of the time of filing this report, while efforts to reach out to the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy,Declan Emelumba, were not successful.