Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave
Umahi, has said that the secessionist agitation of the proscribed Indigenous
People of Biafra has been hijacked by criminals and kidnappers.
The governor also said that the
proscribed group is no longer in control of the whole agitation as a result of
the alleged hijack by unscrupulous elements.
Umahi, who is the Chairman of the
South-East Governors’ Forum, spoke on Friday on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise
Daily’ breakfast programme.
According to him, the people of
the South-East geopolitical zone are industrious people who don’t sit at home
on Mondays.
The governor said though IPOB had
announced the suspension of its Monday sit-at-home order initially issued by
the group, Igbo businessmen and women continue to stay indoors on Mondays
because of the lack of inadequate security personnel to secure their lives and
property.
Umahi said, “The sit-at-home
works to the average of 70 per cent in the South-East because of fear. It’s fear;
our people are not the kind of people that sit at home – they hustle for their
daily living, they go from one place to the other.
“The worst sit-at-home is the
terrible state of roads in the South-East, it is worst than IPOB sit-at-home.
“But let me address the issue of
IPOB sit-at-home to say that even IPOB themselves had come out severally to
say, ‘Look o, we have suspended sit-at-home’, which is madness in the first
place. You are not sitting at home in the North or in the West, you only sit at
home in the South-East to destroy the economy of South-East.
“You can’t destroy your people
and pretend that you are fighting for your people. These are youths and then
the agitation of IPOB has been hijacked by cultists and criminals and
kidnappers, so the whole show is out of their hands.
“So, it is out of fear that we
don’t have enough security to protect the people, that’s why the people sit at
home out of fear because many had been killed as a result of this and as a
result of security people not being enough to protect them.”
Recall that IPOB pronounced a
weekly sit-at-home order in the entire South-East (Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi
and Abia states) beginning August 9, 2021, to protest the continued detention
of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in the custody of the Department of
State Services for over three months.
IPOB subsequently suspended the
Monday sit-at-home order, saying it would be observed any day Kanu appears in
court but the last seven Mondays have turned bloody in the South-East as “unknown
gunmen” attacked travellers, traders, students, and other persons who came out
for normal activities.
Many have been killed, injured
and vehicles have been burnt while banks, markets, schools, and other public
places continue to shut down every Monday as people stayed indoors out of fear
of being assailed outside.
The case of Kanu, who is facing
terrorism-related charged before Justice Binta Nyako, has been adjourned to
October 21, 2021, for continuation of hearing.
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