Sit-home-order: Discordant tunes as IPOB Spokesman, Kanu’s brother issue conflicting directives

By Kenneth Onuoha

365Daily – There is confusion over the status of the planned sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) scheduled for Monday, August 8, 2021, following conflicting orders issued by the Spokesman of the Group, Emma Powerful, and Kanunta Kanu, younger brother to the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB had directed a sit-at-home across the eastern states on Monday, August 9, 2021, in solidarity with its detained leader who is in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS).

The latter had issued a statement that the order had been suspended because of the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) Exam for junior secondary schools, in a statement, adding that a new date for commencement of the sit-at-home order would be announced later.

Kanu said the decision followed pleas from well meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land in order for their students to participate in the NECO Examination.

According to him, allowing the sit-at-home to go as scheduled would amount to assisting enemies of Biafra to inflict more injuries on her children.

 He stated: “IPOB has listened to pleas from well-meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land that we consider the fate of our children who will be involved in the NECO Exam and based on that, we decided to shift grounds over the sit-at-home order.

“IPOB on its part, having realised the academic deprivation the already marginalised Biafra students who entered for this year’s NECO would suffer, decided to suspend the sit-at-home order to a later date, to allow the students take their exams.

“As a group fighting for the liberation of her people from oppression from her enemies, we realized that it would amount to assisting the said enemies to inflict more harm on our children if we do not suspend the sit-at-home order to allow Biafra students take their exams”.

He, however, stressed that it had not been cancelled but only suspended, adding that further directives will be issued in future.

On the other hand, Spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful, in a statement issued on Sunday, said the entire Biafra land would be locked down every Monday from 6:00am to 6:00pm beginning from August 9, 2021, until ”our leader, Nnamdi Kanu who was abducted in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria and locked up in DSS dungeon is freed.”

According to the statement, there will be no movement throughout Biafra land on Mondays.

He said: “This protest is peaceful but Everybody is advised to stay indoors in total compliance.

“All markets, schools, motor parks, airports, and public places in Biafra land should shut down from morning to evening every Monday.

“We understand the economic implications of this measure but we are constrained to take it so that the world will know that our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not alone in the struggle for Biafra autonomy.

“We want his immediate release and our total freedom, and cannot hesitate to pay any sacrifice needed to achieve this including locking down the entire Biafra land on Mondays.

“Visitors in Biafra land are advised to comply with the order. Nobody should go out to avoid any clash or intimidation by the wicked Nigeria security agents.”

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