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IPOB suspends Mondays sit-at-home order, releases new date
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has suspended its sit-at-home order scheduled for every Monday in the southeast while noting a new date for its resumption.
According to the proscribed group, the sit-at-home order will be reactivated whenever their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, 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.
The sit-at-home order is to protest the arrest and detention of Kanu.
NewsWireNGR recalls Kanunta Kanu, younger brother to IPOB’s leader earlier suspended the ‘Every Monday” sit-at-home protest of the group.
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The statement from Kanunta was issued hours after the Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group published that the protest would commence on August 9 to prevail on the Federal Government to release Kanu who is currently in detention for treasonable felony.
But Kanunta in a release said the planned sit-at-home directives have been suspended to allow the students in the geopolitical zone to participate in the National Examination Council.
The protest however went as scheduled last Monday with the family issuing a statement afterwards to apologise for the counterorder.
However, the new directive was announced during a broadcast streamed across social media platforms on Friday.
Chika Edoziem, the group’s head of directorate, made the announcement.
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“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.
Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and repatriated to Nigeria in late June from an undisclosed country by the federal government.
He is currently remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
