Enugu youths took to the streets in peaceful protest on Saturday to support Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in his appeal to cease illegal sit-ins across the South-East.
The youngsters marched along main roads and streets in Enugu city, carrying signs that said, “Even Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is Against Sit-at-Home” and “Sit-at-Home Discourages Economic Progress.”
Others are: “We say NO to Enemies of our Dear State and region”; “Sit-at-Home Affects our Mental Health”; Sit-at-home is Affecting our Children Education” and “We Cannot Continue this Way” among others.
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Speaking, the leader of Enugu Innovative Youths, Comrade Edeani Maduabuchi Edeani, said that anyone promoting unlawful sit-at-home under any cover should desist, adding that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB, was opposed to sit-at-home and had publicly called for its cancellation.
Edeani claimed that the illegal sit-in had caused immeasurable misery and poverty in Enugu State and, by extension, the entire South-East.
According to him, “the illegal sit-at-home is causing so much havoc and making our education, health and economic institutions not to function optimally and our people are counting their losses both as individuals, groups and corporate entities.
“We as youths in Enugu State are supporting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his stance to stop and totally cancel the illegal sit-at-home being engineered by a misguided Nigerian in Finland.
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“We are here to let the world know that anybody supporting the illegal sit-at-home is against the South-East, good people of Enugu State and the future of youths in the state and South-East in general.
“I call on all youths in Enugu State and South-East to desist from supporting the anti-progressive, evil and illegal sit-at-home.”
“It remains a wrong path and it will not do anybody any good rather it will truncate our future and prospects in life as youths,” he added.
Edeani also urged the Federal Government to heed the court decision and release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying it would assist to revitalize the South-East and put an end to the manipulation by a few hoodlums.
Contributing, Mr Ebube Nebo, a youth leader in Enugu State, said that the youths in Enugu State were tired of sit-at-home, adding: “Sit-at-home is a canker-worm gradually snowballing into a big monster of human and economic waste”.
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“In all sincerity, we are suffering. It is not just about what the Enugu State Governor is saying to end it, we are indeed suffering and feeling the pains of our deprivation and loss the illegal sit-at-home is causing us.”
“As youths, it is affecting our education, employment, and entrepreneurial prospects, while our fathers and mothers, especially those in the villages and suburbs, are living in untold hardship” Nebo said.
Nebo expressed the South-East’s outrage over Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention and demanded for his release.
They encouraged the Federal Government to reconsider its relationship with the Finnish government in light of the country’s inability to rein in Simon Ekpa.
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