Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Arrest enforcers of Monday sit-at-home
The Proscribed Indigenous People of
Biafra has ordered the arrest of Monday sit-at-home enforcers in the
South-East.
Emma Power Director Media and
Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, gave the directive on Thursday
in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State.
He wondered why some people would
continue to enforce an order that was long cancelled by IPOB.
Emma Powerful called on community and religious leaders in
the region to devise ways to arrest such hoodlums and hand them over to IPOB
authorities in the localities.
“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.
“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.
Recall that the IPOB leadership had
ordered sit-at-home protest for Mondays so as to prevail on the Federal
Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The order was, however,
cancelled after it was observed once on August 9.
The order is, however, still being
observed by residents of the South-East, while those who flouted the directive
were visited with consequences by purported IPOB enforcers.
IPOB in the statement on Thursday
said, “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.”
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