The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared a one-week sit-at-home protest from November 5 to prevail on the Federal Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, disclosed this in a statement made available to Newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital, yesterday.
This is coming as the State is scheduled to hold a governorship election on 6th November, 2021.
In the statement, IPOB said, “Following the adjournment of our leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s court case to 10th of November 2021, by the Federal High Court Abuja, we, the great movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) wish to inform Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom that IPOB will lock down ‘Biafraland’ from 5th of November to 10th of November, except Sunday, November 7, a day our people worship the Almighty God, if the Nigeria Government fails to release our leader unconditionally before 4th November, 2021.
“Our leader, Nnamdi, must be released unconditionally on or before November 4, 2021, because he has not committed any offense known to any law.
“We have taken time to analyse what transpired on October 21, when our leader was arraigned in court and discovered that the Federal Government is not sincere and only wants to humiliate him and keep him perpetually in DSS custody to rot there.
“Unless the Federal Government releases him unconditionally before November, 4, we shall sacrifice one week for him as a warning protest to convey to our oppressors that Nnamdi Kanu represents over 70 million Biafrans.
“Failure to release our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, on or before Nov. 4, 2021, our one-week ‘sit-at-home’ begins on November 5, 2021, till November 10. Nobody resident in ‘Biafra-land’ is expected to flout this directive as doing so amounts to challenging the will of the people on the Biafra project”, it declared.
“Although we quite understand the pains and adverse effects of this option on our people, we are compelled to take it to achieve a better purpose in the collective interest of Biafrans”, the IPOB further stated.
