The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on citizens, including their counterparts, the Oduduwa Republic and the Middle belt, to join it in its scheduled one-month sit-at-home order.
The follows its demand to Federal Government to bring its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to court on October 21.
A statement issued on Sunday by the group’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, urged Igbo businessmen, women within and outside the southeast to shut down their businesses in solidarity for its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB said the sit-at-home would be a show of support for Kanu, who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) and other citizens of the country, going through similar challenges.
The statement reads, “Following our earlier declaration of one-month lockdown of Biafra land should the Nigeria Government fail to bring our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to the court on October 21,”
“We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), request our brothers and sisters in the Oduduwa Republic and Middle Belt including Igbo and Biafra businessmen and women, traders, who are doing business outside Biafra land to shut down his or her business for us to demonstrate our resolve for the emergence of our new nation Biafra and support for our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and others who are facing a similar fate with us to join us in sympathy protest.”
The group beckoned on those who it said “receive unnecessary humiliation, intimidation and killings from Fulani terrorists, bandits and murderous herdsmen should understand that time has come for all victims of Fulani impunity and atrocities to unite together for resistance.
“We advise all oppressed people in Nigeria to be prepared for the one-month sit-at-home if the federal government of Nigeria and the Department of State Services, DSS fail to produce Nnamdi Kanu in court on the next court adjourned date.
