BY CHUKWUMA NNAM
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has warned the Igbos not to ignore the sit at home order beginning from Monday 9, urging the public to dismiss the statement from the younger brother to its leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who earlier called it off.
IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful in a statement said Kanu’s brother who issued the statement is not IPOB’s spokesman and therefore should be ignored.
He said Kanu’s Brother is not IPOB spokesperson and anybody who listens to that deceptive statement and is obligated to such statement by coming out tomorrow will get it hot.”
Recall that the planned sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, scheduled to commence tomorrow, Monday, was announced suspended due to the National Examination Council, NECO.
The pro-Biafra group had a penultimate week, in what appeared to be in solidarity with its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ordered for sit-at-home that would be observed every Monday throughout Igbo land, starting from August 9, until the IPOB leader is released.
However, in a statement by the IPOB leader’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu, IPOB explained that it arrived at the decision, after listening to pleas from well-meaning individuals and groups that the order is suspended to allow students in Igbo land to participate in the NECO examination.
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“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 having realized the academic deprivation the already marginalized 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 to take their examinations.
“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 to take their exams”.
The statement further explained that the sit-at-home order has not been cancelled, but only suspended for the sake of Biafra students taking this year’s NECO examination and called on IPOB members to await further directives.
