The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a secessionist group led by detained Nnamdi Kanu, has declared May 30 as a sit-at-home day. In a statement released on Monday, the media and publicity secretary of the group urged all Biafrans to observe the day in memory of fallen heroes and heroines who lost their lives in the Biafra cause.
The group had previously suspended sit-at-home exercises in the South-East, citing the inconvenience it caused to the people of the area. However, they have made an exception for May 30, stating that it will be a special and sacrosanct event in Biafraland. The sit-at-home order will last from 6 am to 6 pm on the said day, during which all economic, social, religious, and political activities in Biafraland will be suspended, except for hospitals, doctors, nurses, ambulances, and other health workers who will be on essential duties. The group has advised all other people and workplaces to sit at home.
In addition, the group has called for all police stations and other sectors to be under lock and key within Biafra territory. They have also called on industries, companies, transport companies (air, land, and sea), hotels, schools, and churches to shut down in honor of the heroes and heroines who lost their lives fighting for Biafra. The group has urged Biafrans in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria to join the sit-at-home exercise, while also counseling them to avoid endangering their lives or businesses by obeying the order.
The group further called on Biafrans wherever they may gather on that day to pray with lighted candles and observe three minutes of silence immediately at 12 noon. The statement emphasized the need to remember all those who died in the Nigeria genocidal war against Biafra, including mothers and fathers bombed in market places, hospitals, and churches, as well as children that the Nigeria government starved to their early death.
The group also paid tribute to victims of the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Sahara desert who died while attempting to escape the draconian and wicked economic and political policies against Biafrans by the Nigeria State.
The statement also paid homage to victims of slavery, including those who died in slave chains and tortures from slave masters’ hands, those thrown overboard, and those who preferred death to being taken as slaves. The group remembered its eternal leader Ikemba Nnewi Dikedioranma Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, General Philip Efiong, Dr. Frank Opigo, Okon ko Ndem, Col. Achzie, Bruce Mayrock, Christian Aid workers, Biafra Aid Volunteers, and many others whose contributions during Biafra the Nigerian genocide against Biafrans are the reason why they are alive today. The statement urged everyone to remember and honor these fallen heroes and heroines.
Lastly, the statement paid tribute to IPOB members who were brutally murdered during peaceful protests and rallies, those murdered in Aba, Onitsha, Asaba, Igweocha, Enugu, Nkpor, Ebonyi in cold blood by the Nigerian Army at the residence of the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu in 2017. The group remembered Ikonso and other gallant Eastern Security Network (ESN) volunteers who were murdered by Nigeria State because they were defending their land against state-sponsored terrorism.
They also remembered His Majesty and Lolo Sally Isreal Okwu Kanu, whose lives were cut short by the shocks they received when the Nigerian Army invaded, murdered, and desecrated their Royal Palace. The statement urged everyone to
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