The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, on Thursday, asked its members and people of the Benue, Adamawa,
Nasarawa, Kogi and Kaduna States, to sit at home on May 30.
IPOB explained that the order was
in protest over killings by Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram activities in the
affected states.
The annual sit-at-home order is a
move by the proscribed IPOB aimed at pushing for the actualisation of the
sovereign state of Biafra across the South-East. It is expecting that Igbo and
those sympathetic to the struggle for Biafra on May 30 stay indoors.
In a statement signed by its
spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the secessionist group stated that there would be
no vehicular movement both in South East and the Middle Belt region of the
country on May 30.
The statement reads: “IPOB
explained that We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
consider it imperative to use this great opportunity provided by the Most High
God to announce the sit at home order throughout Biafraland and Nigeria in
remembrance of our fallen heroes and heroines whose sacrifice made it possible
for this generation to be alive today.
“We shall also remember all
victims of Fulani herdsmen attacks, Boko Haram violence and those that died at
the hands of Nigerian security agencies over the years that nobody remembers.
“We are calling on all the people
of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt especially Benue, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Kogi,
those affected by herdsmen terrorism in Ondo, Osun and other states in
Yorubaland to join the great family of IPOB in observing a day of solemn prayer
and sit at home to remember those that lost their lives unlawfully at the hands
of Fulani terrorist herdsmen and security agencies even during the recently
concluded fraudulent 2019 general elections.
“This year’s remembrance and
Sit-At-Home order will be special because it will present a unique moment of
shared pains and misery for all the families that lost their loved ones to war,
hunger, starvation, disease, terrorism and state-sponsored killings going on
now in the contraption called Nigeria.
“We remember the heroic few that
stood up against tyranny especially those that sacrificed their lives to defend
the defenceless and those that lost their lives because there was no one to
defend them.
“There will be no human,
vehicular or animal movement across Biafraland on the 30th May 2019. Biafraland
will be in total lock down. Middle Belt and Yorubaland brethren are advised to
join this historic sit at home order to honour the memory of all that died
unjustly in Nigeria.
“Churches, Mosques, Synagogues
and Temples are encouraged to open their places of worship on the midnight of
the 29th of May for special midnight prayers in remembrance of all that died as
a result of violence and sponsored killings. Special vigil will be held at the
homes of select Biafran heroes and heroines who were murdered in cold blood in
Biafraland.
“30th of May is now an annual
remembrance event initiated by IPOB worldwide to honour our fallen Biafran
soldiers without whom this generation of Biafrans would not have existed. We
owe our heroes and heroines of the class of 67-70 an incalculable debt of
gratitude and shall honor them annually until the end of time. We shall never
forget them as long as this world exist.
“In our usual tradition, all IPOB
families in the diaspora must rally on the streets of their respective
countries with written petitions ready to be submitted to the nearest United
Nation offices and embassies of foreign missions in that country.
“As our freedom draws near this
year, our 30th of May sit-at-home and total lockdown of Biafraland will be
remarkable. The whole world is looking up to Biafrans especially IPOB family
members worldwide, who through the grace of the Most High God will deliver
Biafra and all other oppressed people’s of Northern and Western Nigeria from
bondage Northern oligarchy put innocent and unarmed citizens in the country.”
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