By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
The Indigenous People of Biafra on Friday ordered that anyone enforcing the banned Monday sit-at-home order in the South-East should be arrested.
The Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Power, stated this in a statement on Thursday available to newsmen in Awka, Anambra State capital.
He urged various communities and religious leaders in the Geopolitical zone to devise ways to arrest such hoodlums and hand them over to IPOB authorities in their localities.
He wondered why some people would continue to enforce an order that was long cancelled by IPOB.
He said, ”We wish to reiterate once again that IPOB has cancelled Monday sit-at-home order and anybody or group enforcing the relaxed order is neither from IPOB nor from IPOB volunteer group.”
According to IPOB, “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 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.
“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.
It would be recalled that IPOB leadership had ordered for “Every Monday” sit-at-home protest to prevail on the Federal Government to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but later cancelled the orders.
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But the investigation has shown that the order is still being observed by residents of the South-East, while those who flouted the directive were visited with consequences by purported IPOB enforcers.
IPOB said however that “Nobody has the powers 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 Biafraland is when our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is appearing in court, and we shall, as usual, make it public for all to know,” the group stated.
