The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has begun distributing flyers and posters in the southeast to inform residents about cancelling the sit-at-home exercise in the region.
The group said its action is to convey Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s announcement about the cancellation of the sit-at-home and emphasise that it will no longer be used as a tool of civil disobedience in their pursuit of self-determination.
Kanu, the leader of the group, is currently in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS).
The spokesman for the group, Emma Powerful, said in a statement on Saturday, “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”.
Powerful said the IPOB leader authorised the instructions to distribute the flyers by hand and paste posters.
His words: “This is to inform Biafrans about the flyers and posters being distributed all over the southeast conveying our leader’s famous pronouncement cancelling Monday sit-at-home, and to inform the good people of Biafrans that 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.
“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 Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and rank and file IPOB membership nor the ESN operatives.”
The group insisted that the Biafran struggle championed by IPOB has no government in exile and will never have any government in exile.
“We encourage 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.
“Anybody apprehended enforcing any sit-at-home is a goner. The Finland-based criminal will not save you,” the group added.
