The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has initiated the distribution of flyers across the southeast to communicate the cancellation of Monday’s sit-at-home directives in the region.
According to IPOB spokesperson Emma Powerful, the sit-at-home order is no longer in effect. He added that those attempting to enforce it will face consequences.
Powerful clarified that the flyer distribution campaign, aimed at announcing the cancellation, has the approval of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu.
On July 28, Kanu officially declared an end to the weekly sit-at-home practice in the southeast.
The statement reads:
“This is to inform Biafrans about the flyers and posters being distributed all over Biafraland conveying our leader’s famous pronouncement cancelling Monday sit-at-home.”
He added that “the good people of Biafra” should be informed “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”.
“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,” he said.
“The instructions to distribute these flyers by hand and paste posters to this effect was authorized by our prophet and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU.
“Those purporting to be running a Biafra Government in exile from somewhere in Finland also known as autopilot, are not IPOB members. Their activities do not represent the views of the supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU, rank and file of IPOB nor ESN operatives.
“Moreso, it is a shame to the memory of our brave martyrs that gave their lives for the emancipation of Biafra that individuals that never led ordinary street protests in Biafraland or anywhere in the world in support of Biafra restoration, can claim to lead our people.
“This is an absolute disgrace.
“We encourage Biafrans to help in the distribution of the flyers, posters to communities, hinterlands and cities in Biafraland.”