The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday denied
declaring a sit-at-home on Monday and Tuesday next week.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, issued the rebuttal in
response to reports making the rounds that it declared a sit-at-home.
Powerful, in a statement he signed, insisted that such
reports did not emanate from him and should be discarded.
He stressed that the reports were created by government
agents aimed at de-marketing IPOB and causing confusion.
He said: “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) ably led by our great and indefatigable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has
been drawn to the fabricated statement being circulated by mischief makers and
paid agents of darkness that IPOB had directed Biafrans to sit-at-home Monday,
October 18; Tuesday, October 19; and Thursday, October 21 for our leader, and
One year anniversary of #EndSARS protest.
“We want to make it categorically clear that the above
purported statement did not emanate from IPOB, and we completely dissociate
with such falsehood. IPOB did not issue any sit-at-home except on October 21
when our leader is expected to appear in court.
“We therefore urge members of the public to ignore the
purported statement and utter falsehood being peddled by paid agents of
government to create confusion and demarket IPOB. Their intention is to portray
IPOB as a violent and insensitive movement but we know their antics, and shall
beat them to it.”
Powerful said IPOB only declared a sit-at-home on Thursday,
October 21 because its leader, Nnamdi Kanu is expected to appear in court.
“For the sake of clarity, IPOB has not called for any
sit-at-home except on Thursday, October 21 when our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
will appear in court in Abuja. Biafrans will solidarise with him by staying
indoors on that day because we are all in the struggle together. He did nothing
to deserve any persecution by the Federal Government.
“We seriously warn all those behind this rumour to retrace
their steps and stop tarnishing the good image of IPOB.
“As a responsible and responsive movement, we stopped Monday
Sit-at-homes in the interest of our people. When we discovered that hooligans
and paid agents of death wanted to hijack the opportunity to unleash mayhem on
our people are cleverly blame it on IPOB, we stopped it. So, anybody sitting at
home on Mondays does so out of one’s volition and not on the orders of IPOB.
“We also urge the general public to ignore the fake news
that our leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU has been taken away by foreign government,” he
added.
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