Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural group, has given assist to the Indigenous People of Biafra’s directive for Igbo natives in Nigeria and the Diaspora to honor sit-at-home order scheduled for October 1, 2020.
IPOB had in a assertion by means of its Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated the decision followed credible intelligence alleging plans by terrorist corporations to slaughter human beings of the region intending to celebrate the Independence Day.
The team said its participants would join its Yoruba brothers agitating for Oduduwa Republic on October 1.
Reacting to the directive, Ohanaeze’s National Publicity Secretary, Uche Achi Okpaga, while speaking with Vanguard, stated there was nothing wrong for a humans to sit down at home furnished they had been no longer violating the regulation of the land.
According to him, such practice used to be available even outside the country.
“If IPOB stated so, we are supporting it. They are our children. We are assisting it because it is now not in opposition to the regulation and so a long way as it is no longer a violent act. It is obtainable in all places in the world. So, we are totally in assist of it,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State Government thru the Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Stanley Emegha, entreated the people to ignore the sit-at-home directive of IPOB and go about their everyday activities on October 1.
He said, “Who is IPOB to tell humans to sit down at home? That is the peak of craziness on their side.
“How can you tell human beings who have a family to take a seat at home? To do what? Will you come and put meals on their table?
“In the first place, we don’t even know if there is anything like IPOB present in the state.
“People have to dismiss the stated statement and go about their ordinary commercial enterprise on that day.”
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