Cajetan Mmuta, Awka

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) has asked residents of the South-East geo-political zone to stop obeying the weekly Monday sit-at-home order earlier given by the group.Its spokesman, Emma Powerful, gave the order yesterday in a statement to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital.

Powerful described those who are still enforcing the exercise in the South-East as criminals, adding the group would no longer allow such infamous exercise in the region.
IPoB stated, “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) ably led by the great and indefatigable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to remind Biafrans in Biafra Land, friends of Biafra, and lovers of Biafra freedom across the world, that the Monday sit-at-home remains suspended.

“We are concerned that in some areas, especially the rural areas, our people continue to observe Monday sit-at-home due to threats from criminal enforcers linking themselves to the IPoB movement. We have said numerous times that the Monday sit-at-home is infamous and cannot be allowed to continue.”According to IPoB, “The now suspended Monday sit-at-home order was an IPoB leadership order that was suspended by the leadership in collaboration with our leader after considering some adverse effects of it on our people, and how our enemies can possibly use it.
“Just as predicted by the IPoB leadership, Nigerian security agents, infiltrators, and government agents hijacked it and used it to torment our people, and to rubbish IPoB’s name in Biafra land and in other countries.”

The group added, ”Mondays in Biafra land have become a day for the agent provocateurs and the Nigerian security agencies to kill and destroy our land just because they want to blackmail IPoB.

“The IPoB leadership is always ahead of our enemies and cancelled this tool before our enemies could start using it. We are telling all and sundry that sit-at-home has been cancelled.

“Our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has once again ordered from DSS custody that Monday sit-at-home should cease in every part of Biafra land.

“IPoB is not, and will never be responsible for any outcome arising from this non-existent sit-at-home, and we shall no longer talk about it. Ndigbo is not cowards and, therefore, should normalise their Mondays like before. Anyone seen enforcing Monday sit-at-home should be treated as a criminal and enemy of our people.”