Asari-Dokubo, a major political figure of the Ijaw ethnic group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has staunchly criticised Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for criminal acts linked to his group during enforcement of its suspended sit-at-home order.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that IPOB had suspended its sit-at-home directive in the region.
In what looked like a denial of Monday’s disturbances in Southeast states, IPOB had asked South East governors and security operatives to penalise purported enforcers of the suspended sit-at-home order in the region.
In a statement issued earlier this month by Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB who has the pseudonym, Emma Powerful, the group distanced itself from the shootings in most Southeast states that has disrupted economic activities.
The violence resulted in killings, burning of cars, while some residents were injured.
Kanu is standing trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony.
“You (Nnamdi Kanu) have desecrated and destroyed the whole of Igbo land. Go to Imo, go to Anambra, go to Enugu. Abia, his own state, is the only one that has little security. Why is he leaving Abia, his own state, and destroying other states? They will say we want to use divide-and-rule. Go to Abia, Abia is peaceful. They don’t even do this sit-at-home in Abia. In Umuahia, they don’t do sit at home in Umuahia. But sit-at-home must be in Onitsha, sit-at-home must be at Nnewi, sit-at-home must be at Akwa, at Owerri, sit-at-home must be at Orsu, where they gather, they eat people. If anybody talk, they kill them. The lives of Igbo people have become so cheap in the hands of Nnamdi Kanu and his demons,” Dokubo said via a Facebook Live on Thursday night.
