On Saturday, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, began distributing flyers across southeastern states to notify residents of the official cancellation of the Monday sit-at-home exercise in the region.
In a statement, Emma Powerful, the media and publicity secretary of the IPOB, explained that the exercise was aimed at conveying their leader’s (Nnamdi Kanu) instruction to put an end to the weekly sit-at-home.
“The exercise also aims to inform the people that sit-at-home is not only ‘dead’ but will also never again be invoked or deployed as a tool of civil disobedience in the group’s quest for self-determination,” Powerful added.
He said the sensitisation exercise which involved the distribution of flyers and pasting of posters was authorised by Kanu who is in detention.
The IPOB spokesperson warned that henceforth anybody who enforces the sit-at-home exercise in the region “is an enemy of the people and shall be dealt with accordingly”
“The criminal elements are not working for IPOB nor the release of Kanu, who is detained in the DSS solitary confinement in Abuja,” he noted.
The group also distanced itself from Simon Ekpa, who claims to be Kanu’s disciple in the struggle for the actualisation of Biafra.
“Those purporting to be running a Biafra government in exile, from somewhere in Finland, also known as Autopilot are not IPOB members and their activities do not represent the views of Kanu, rank and file IPOB membership nor ESN operatives,” Powerful’s statement read.
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