IPOB Suspends Mondays Sit-At-Home Directive In South-East

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the suspension of its every Monday sit-at-home order it earlier issued in the southeast to protest the detainment of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB said the sit-at-home order will be reactivated whenever Nnamdi Kanu, its leader, appears in court.

The proscribed group had said it would enforce a lockdown every Monday — which it tagged ‘Ghost Monday’ — from August 9, in the south-east until Kanu is released.

GWG recalls Kanunta Kanu, a sibling of Nnamdi Kanu once ordered the suspension of the “Every Monday” sit-at-home directive issued to members of the group in the South East.

The family would later apologise to the group that the directive was in no way to cause division but was in consideration of students who were to sit for the NECO examinations.

No fewer than two persons were allegedly killed in Nnewi Anambra on Monday, August 9 while residents were complying with the sit-at-home order.

According to eyewitnesses, at about 6:00 am on Monday, gunshots were heard at Izuchukwu Junction.

They all came out to see two lifeless bodies of young men. But nobody could explain who shot them.

The new suspension directive was communicated to members of the group during a broadcast streamed across social media platforms on Friday.

Chika Edoziem, the group’s head of the directorate, announced the new directive.

“There has been some discussion whether we must continue our ghost town in Biafra land. I wish to announce this very evening that as directed by the highest command of this movement, our Monday ghost town or sit-at-home in Biafra land stands suspended,” he said.

“The weekly sit-at-home in Biafra land stands suspended for now. That means in the coming Monday there would be no sit-at-home in Biafra land.

“We must revert our attention to the trial of our leader that is coming up. Our sit-at-home bearing any new information given to Biafrans all over the world.

“Our sit-at-home will be on each court date, when our leader will be appearing in court. Before then, we will make that information. Our sit-at-home will be taken place in the next court appearance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”

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