The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued a warning to the Anambra state Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, over threats aimed at residents “voluntarily” observing the IPOB ‘Sit-at-Home’ order every Monday......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
The warning was delivered in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday.
The Group emphasized that the Sit-atHome order is their means of exerting pressure on the Nigerian government to swiftly order the release of their detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Dear Governor, please know that people staying at home on Mondays are doing so voluntarily not because of any threat from inconsequential individuals or coercive action by any actors.
“Ask anybody, including those purportedly enforcing the order, they will tell you that the release of Nnamdi Kanu is all they require to stop,” the statement read in part.
While accusing Soludo and other South-East Governors of “actively aiding and abetting” the “unwarranted and continued unlawful” detention of Kanu,” the Group stressed that residents of the state had no qualms with the order and are complying “voluntarily.”
“The same people you are asking to abandon their quiet protest on Mondays are the same people you and your fellow governors from the south-east have repeatedly disappointed in your calculated failure to honour your word to visit the Nigerian president to formally request for the release of our leader.
“It’s nearly 6 months now since you and your fellow governors resolved in your meeting at Enugu to visit President Bola Tinubu to effect the release of Nnamdi Kanu, but till date nothing has happened.”
Emma Powerful claimed that insecurity has continued to wreak havoc in Anambra State, adding that Soludo “knows that the only thing that can bring this sorry state of affairs to an immediate halt is the release of Nnamdi Kanu.”
According to Powerful, the South-East governors are “playing politics with this issue of Monday sit-at-home” and the attendant “insecurity across our land because you all underestimate the deep-seated anger and resentment our people feel at the impotency of the leadership to make a simple trip to Abuja.”
He went on to accuse the Governors of financially benefitting from the chaos in the South Eastern part of the country.
“Deep down in your hearts, you governors are directly benefiting, financially, from the chaos and mayhem, death and misery bedeviling the ancient and sacred land of the Igbo race.
“Some of you governors who are happily enjoying an inflated security budget on the back of insecurity in our land, occasioned by the illegal incarceration of our leader, are to blame for the raging insecurity in our land because you are the direct beneficiaries of insecurity.
“Those that choose to sit-at-home on Mondays are exercising their right to peaceful protest. You are not in a position to sanction them when they have not broken any laws.
“Those choosing to sit-at-home are doing so because of Nnamdi Kanu and nobody else. You cannot stop it by force,” he said.
