The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has said its Monday’s sit-at-home order remains cancelled.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful,
said anyone found to be enforcing the sit-at-home order across the Southeast is
an agent of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Powerful urged people of the
Southeast to go about their normal businesses, adding that anyone caught
enforcing the order would be treated as an enemy of the region.
In a statement he issued on
Thursday, Powerful said: “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our prophet and liberator Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
wish to reiterate once again that IPOB has cancelled the Monday sit-at-home
order and anybody or group enforcing the relaxed order is neither from IPOB nor
from IPOB volunteer groups.
“We are advising our people to
ignore anybody enforcing non-existent Monday sit-at-home order and go about
their normal business because such person(s) are working for our enemies and
their intention is to blackmail IPOB and set the movement against the people
but they won’t succeed. Anyone caught adding to the pain of our people in the
name of enforcing Monday’s sit-at-home order will be treated as the enemy that
he or she is.
“We, therefore, warn these agents
of darkness using the name of IPOB to enforce a non-existent sit-at-home to
desist because if we lay hold on them they will eternally regret their evil
actions. Why should such unpatriotic elements be inflicting pain on our people
and dragging our image to the mud? IPOB remains a non-violent movement and our
peaceful approach for Biafra restoration has not changed.
“It will be recalled that IPOB
leadership called for the Monday Sit-At-Home and the same IPOB leadership has
cancelled it. Nobody has the power to enforce the same suspended sit-at-home
using the name of IPOB. Such a person is an impostor working for the killing
squad of the Nigerian DSS and Nigerian security agencies and should be treated
as such if apprehended. The only day sit-at-home will be observed in Biafra
land is when our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is appearing in court, and we shall,
as usual, make it public for all to know.”
Powerful urged community leaders,
market leaders, Church leaders, and constituted authorities to arrest anyone
enforcing the sit-at-home order.
“We hereby direct community
leaders, market leaders, church leaders, and other institutions of authority in
Biafra land to arrest any hoodlum trying to enforce any sit-at-home on Mondays
and hand them over to IPOB. Such criminal elements must be treated in a
language they understand,” the statement added.
IPOB had instituted the Monday
sit-at-home order to prevail on the Nigerian Government to release its leader,
Nnamdi Kanu.
However, the group had cancelled
the order ahead of the just concluded Anambra State governorship election,
after it was hijacked by hoodlums.
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