The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has once again refuted the claim that it declared a one-week sit-at-home exercise across the South-East region.
The pro-Biafran group said the clarification became necessary because of the tension and panic the rumours have generated.
The rumour of a one-week sit-at-home, starting from June 3 to June 9, purportedly declared by Simon Ekpas faction of the IPOB group, has been making the rounds across the region for some days now.
Reacting to the development in a statement yesterday, the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, said South-East residents should ignore the rabble-rousers, insisting there is no such thing as sit-at-home.
The leadership of the IPOB, according to the statement, queried: How can we be keeping our people indoors for one week at these harsh economic times in Nigeria? Our people should start reasoning. Some Federal Government agents are trying to make the South-East unattractive for our people to return to. They have failed.
The group noted that those piloting IPOB affairs are intellectuals who know when to apply different strategies and cannot indulge in activities that will impact negatively the people.
Our people should ignore the useless one-week sit-at-home order from agents claiming to be fighting for Biafras freedom. Some of the foot soldiers of these Nigerian Agents in the diaspora dont realise that they were being used by enemies of Biafra to suffer Biafrans in order to make Biafra agitation championed by Kanus IPOB unattractive. But their agenda is dead on arrival.
Therefore, the public should ignore any rumours about a one-week sit-at-home in the South-East. Those behind these devilish orders are not IPOB members, and they are not working for Nnamdi Kanu, it added.
