This position stood despite an earlier approval secured from the Onitsha main market authority, which included a negotiated fee of N3,500 to operate our equipment. The Marine market insisted that permission from one section of the Onitsha market did not extend to another. Even so, the impacts of the sit-at-home on Anambra state’s economy which began in 2021, are too significant to ignore. The state estimated its weekly losses at N8bn weekly, out of the approximately N19.6bn lost weekly across the Southeast region. A security expert with SBM Intelligence, David Nwaigwe, explained that the prolonged sit-at-home order underscores the challenges of state legitimacy.