
Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader
IPOB says, ‘Tuesday’s sit-at-home sacrosanct’

[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Secessionist group, Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has said that the scheduled sit-at-home on Tuesday, September 14, 2012, in remembrance of the victims of September 14, 2017, military raid of the country home of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was sacrosanct.


A statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, on Monday said the peaceful protest is for the remembrance of the victims of the genocidal invasion of our Leader’s compound at Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia in 2017.
The IPOB advised all its members and followers both to stay indoors on Tuesday as a mark of honour to these fallen heroes and heroines.
According to IPOB, we must not fail to remember the supreme sacrifices of these great freedom seekers and that nothing done to honour them should be considered too much because they have watered the tree of Biafra freedom with their blood.
“The global movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to remind all Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of Biafra freedom across the globe that the sit-at-home order issued by the IPOB leadership to be observed tomorrow, Tuesday, 14th of September 2021 is sacrosanct.
“The peaceful protest is for the remembrance of the victims of the genocidal invasion of our Leader’s compound at Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia on the 14th of September 2017. No fewer than 28 innocent Biafrans were killed that day by the Nigeria Army during the raid.”
“Besides, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has also made a lot of sacrifice for the restoration of Biafra. So, all of us must be prepared to play our roles to accomplish this great task. Biafra independence is a mandate that we must live to accomplish,” the statement read in part.
IPOB further urged members and sympathisers not to be deterred by the killings of Biafra agitators by suspected Nigeria security agents.