Again, IPOB threatens one week lockdown if Kanu not released before Nov. 4
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has threatened to declare one week of sit-at-home beginning from November 5 to November 10, 2021, if its detained leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not released unconditionally before November 4, 2021.
If this threat by group is anything to by, then, the November 6 Anambra governorship election may suffer a huge set back.
A press statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the one week sit-at-home protest would be used to convey to President Muhammad Buhari that “Kanu represents 70 million Biafrians.
According to the group, KANU is innocent of all the charges preferred against him and as long as he remains in detention our individual businesses do not matter because he is suffering for us.
IPOB said: “Our leader, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi MUST be released UNCONDITIONALLY on or before November 4, 2021 because he has not committed any offense known to any law.
“Failure to release our leader onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU on or before November 4, 2021, our one week Sit-At-Home begins on November 5, 2021 till November 10”.
The statement added that IPOB acknowledged the pains and adverse effects of the option on the people, but was compelled to take it to achieve a better purpose in the collective interest of Biafrans.
The group accused the federal government of sincerity in the trial of Kanu, and only wanted to humiliate him and keep him perpetually in DSS custody.
It added: “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.
“He is innocent of all the charges preferred against him. As long as he is in detention our individual businesses do not matter so much because he is suffering for us all and we can’t abandon him”.
It warned against plans to torment or abandon its leader in DSS custody through frivolous court adjournments, maintaining that such plans to subject him to trauma in detention through long adjournments by the Federal Government while real terrorists and mass murderers were being pampered would be resisted.