IPOB disowns fresh sit-at-home order, asks residents to ignore it

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has distanced itself from the two-day sit-at-home declared for Monday and Tuesday in the South-East region.

The Biafran agitators, in a terse statement on Monday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, called on residents of the region to ignore any declaration of sit-at-home on October 21 and 22, insisting that the order did not emanate from the group.

Reacting to a video and voice notes that have been circulating on social media for over two weeks warning residents of the South-East to remain indoors on October 21 and 22, saying that those days have been declared sit-at-home, Powerful said the clips did not emanate from IPOB.

“IPOB did not declare any sit-at-home order on October 21 and 22. The illegal order is from criminal elements and Finland-based infiltrators who are not our members,” he said in reference to the Finland-based Auto-Pilot IPOB under Simon Ekpa.

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“We urged our people to ignore the order and go about their normal business on those days. IPOB does not want to talk about it because we don’t want to create panic over the matter.

“Biafrans must understand that IPOB does not declare unnecessary sit-at-home. We have since suspended it and anybody declaring it is a criminal element that should be ignored.

“We didn’t want to talk about it again in order to avoid giving undue popularity to the inconsequential order from Finland-based infiltrators,” he added.

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