IPOB Repents From Sit-at-Home Imposition, Promises Total Cooperation…see details
…we’ll never deploy sit-at-home again for our agitation — IPOB
…Ekpa raises alarm over Kanu’s health, says condition critical
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has assured never to deploy sit-at-home as a tool of civil disobedience in its quest for self-determination. This is as Finland-based separatist group leader, Simon Ekpa has also raised the alarm that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is in critical condition.
In a statement on Saturday by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafra group maintained that it would never again invoke its method of civil disobedience to demand self-determination.
To this end, the pro-separatist group encouraged Biafrans to help in the distribution of the flyers, and posters to communities, hinterlands, and cities in Biafraland signifying the requiem mass for the “senseless Monday sit-at-home.”
The statement reads: “This is to inform Biafrans about the flyers and posters being distributed all over Biafraland conveying our leader’s famous pronouncement canceling Monday sit-at-home and to inform the good people of Biafrans that the sit-at-home is not only dead but will never again be invoked or deployed as a tool of civil disobedience in our quest for self-determination.
“Any person or persons talking about a non-existent sit-at-home in BiafraLand is an enemy of the people and shall be dealt with accordingly.”
He said: “The instructions to distribute these flyers by hand and paste posters to this effect was authorized by our prophet and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu.
“It is to be stated for the umpteenth time, for those who may feign ignorance of the laws governing the conduct expected of IPOB family worldwide that our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has ordered the permanent end to Monday sit-at-home in Biafraland and anybody seen enforcing this illegal and non-existent Monday sit-at-home will be apprehended and summarily dealt with on the spot.
“These criminal elements are not working for Biafra restoration nor the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is unlawfully detained in the DSS solitary confinement in Abuja Nigeria.
“Those purporting to be running a Biafra Government in Exile group from somewhere in Finland also known as Autopilot are not IPOB members and their activities do not represent the views of the Supreme Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, rank and file IPOB membership nor ESN operatives.
“Moreso, it is a shame to the memory of our brave martyrs that gave their lives for the emancipation of Biafra that individuals that never led ordinary street protests in Biafraland or anywhere in the world in support of Biafra restoration can claim to lead our people. This is an absolute disgrace.”
IPOB, therefore, dissociated itself from a group it described as the “ social media Biafra Government in Exile (BGIE).”.
The group denied ever having any government in exile and “will never have any government in exile.”
People that never led a protest anywhere in the world, were never detained, or held meetings with any international bodies can never claim to represent our people.
“Such a person is a charlatan, petty criminal, and a monumental fraud. Whoever is foolish enough to associate with such a fraudulent social media scam called Government in Exile (Autopilot) is doing so at his or her own risk and must not link Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB to it.
In another development, Simon Ekpa on his Twitter page said “ Nnamdi Kanu is in critical condition.”
Kanu has been in detention in the facility of Nigeria’s secret police, DSS, since he was arrested in June 2021 in Kenya and sent to Nigeria to face trial for treasonable felony despite the Court of Appeal freeing the IPOB leader from terrorism and treasonable felony charges last year.
Ekpa, a self-proclaimed disciple of Kanu, said Kanu’s health was deteriorating, stressing that he may die in DSS detention if nothing was done urgently.
He vowed that those involved would not go unpunished if anything should happen to Kanu.
On his Twitter handle Saturday morning, he wrote, “ Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is very sick and may die in DSS if nothing is done or not released soon. I wish to inform Biafrans that Onyendu is very sick right now. He is in the worst state ever. If MNK dies in DSS let them know that none of those involved in this crime will be free.”
(The Nation)