The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has repudiated an audio message circulating on social media in which inhabitants of the southeast were asked to observe a one-week sit-in from July 3 to July 10.
The reported IPOB sit-in order, with the hashtag #FreeNnamdiKanu, is intended to force the Federal Government to free Nnamdi Kanu, who has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The voice message stated that anyone who ventures out on the specified dates will face severe repercussions.
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Mr Emma Powerful, IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, told DAILY POST on Wednesday that the audio message was not from his group.
“You must know whom madness sit-at-home is, and the criminal who is illegally destroying our land.
“I will issue an official press release against it in two to three days to the date declared in the audio, but for now, the leadership (of IPOB) has asked me not to give it attention or attraction,” he said.
IPOB had declared every Monday in the South East a sit-at-home day in order to push the Federal Government to release its leader Kanu, but eventually discontinued it on the grounds that the activity was harming the region’s economy.
Despite IPOB’s assurances, some hoodlums have continued to enforce it since its cancellation, forcing many to sit at home every Monday.
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Simon Ekpa, a section leader of the organization headquartered in Finland, has consistently backed the Monday exercise and even threatened the governors of Anambra and Enugu, Prof Chukwuma Soludo and Mr Peter Mbah, who had spoken out and cancelled the exercise in their respective states.
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