By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, NNEWI
THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB yesterday, described as ‘trash’ no true and serious Igbo son or daughter, should comply with, the one-week sit-at-home ordered by a group of people it alleged are government agents working for the Nigerian government and its security agents against the interest of Ndigbo.
IPoB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, entitled, “Nothing like one-week sit-at-home order from IPoB, ignore the government agents”, disassociated itself from any purported call for a one-week sit-at-home in Igbo land, saying that enemies of Ndigbo are behind the order.
A group called the Biafra Republic in Exile, BRIGIE, led by Mazi Simon Ekpa, as its Prime Minister had on Sunday, July 3, 2023, in a statement signed by Ekpa ordered a one-week sit-at-home, to demand the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other sundry demands.
However, IPoB in a statement from its Directorate of States DoS, via its image maker to newsmen, described the order for a one-week sit-at-home as ‘irresponsible and trash that is not worth complying with’, and therefore, disassociated itself from it, saying it is coming from Nigerian government paid agents and rabble-rousers.
IPoB’s statement read, “The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, the Directorate of State, DoS, and the Supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, wish to publicly disassociate IPoB from any purported call for a one-week sit-at-home for Biafrans. This clarification has become necessary because Biafrans have sent inquiries asking if the IPoB leadership has called for a sit-at-home.
“IPoB is not part of such trash and irresponsible order from government-paid agents whose agenda is to ridicule the struggle to restore Biafra sovereignty. Biafrans should therefore ignore the rabble-rousers, they are the Nigerian government and its security agencies agents to destabilize Igbo land and its economy. There is NO sit-at-home scheduled for one week in Igbo land, and no responsible Igbo son or daughter should comply with such an order.
“The purported one-week sit-at-home jingle on social media is NOT from IPoB, and will not come from IPoB. We are not in the business of issuing irresponsible and non-existent sit-at-home orders. IPOB is a responsible movement and family. Our aims and objectives are to give peace and freedom to our people not to inflict more pain on the pains Nigeria has already inflicted on Ndigbo.
“Those who come from the back door are nothing but thieves. Thieves come to rob, kill, and destroy. The agent provocateurs are on the same mission as the Nigerian government and her security agents to keep Alaigbo (Igbo land) under insecurity and economic siege while disguising themselves as fighting for the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“How can keeping our people indoors for one week in these harsh economic times in Nigeria liberate our leader or Biafrans from the shackle of this contraption? Our people should start telling the unreasonable attention seekers ordering them to sit at home for one week that they are empty brains and are not more intelligent than them. As IPoB joins the call for our people who are under threat in Lagos to bring their investments home, some Federal Government agents are trying to make Alaigbo unattractive for our people to return. They have failed, and woefully for that matter.
“Those piloting IPIPoBB affairs are intellectuals who know when to apply different strategies. We can not indulge in activities that will impact negatively our people. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu can’t indulge in anything that will increase our people’s suffering.
“Our people should ignore the senseless useless one-week sit-at-home order from agents claiming to be fighting for Biafra freedom. Some of the foot soldiers of these Nigerian agents in the diaspora don’t realize that they were being used by enemies of Biafra to suffer Biafrans in order to make Biafra agitation championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s IPoB unattractive. But their agenda is dead on arrival, as we know our people will never obey such senseless order.
“We are not in the business to suffer Biafrans at this harsh economic time in Nigeria. Should IPoB decide to call for sit-at-home, we will communicate it publicly to Biafrans, and it will NOT exceed one day. Biafrans will comply with such an order, not the one coming from criminals enforcing sit-at-home by killing our people. If any fool is caught forcing our people to sit at home, he should be treated as the criminal that he is.
“The public should, therefore, ignore any rumours about a one-week sit-at-home in Biafra land. Those behind the devilish orders are not IPoB members, and they are not working for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the interest of Ndigbo, they are simply government-paid agents to destroy Ndigbo and our undying economy.”
Source: Vanguard