The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday expressed its resolve to ensure a total lockdown of the entire South East, South South zone.
Recall that the security agencies had in a joint press conference at the Anambra State command called on residents of the state to ignore IPOB’s ‘sit at home’ order, describing the group as a proscribed group that lacks right to make such order.
But, IPOB in a statement made available to journalists in Awka by its media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powwerful, insisted that the order remains sacrosanct, adding that every Biafran, both home and abroad, is expected to stay indoors, away from work, market and roads, from dusk on Thursday September 13 to dawn on Friday September 14, 2018.
According to the group, a special compliance unit has been set up by IPOB High Command to monitor and take record of traitors and saboteurs who may have been recruited by the government to undermine the sanctity of the occasion.
IPOB warned that any person or persons found outside on the 14th of September 2018 will be regarded as an enemy of Biafra and dealt with accordingly, adding that such person or persons along with their families will face the eternal wrath and consequences of their actions.
The statement said, “IPOB generation will not forgive any act of treachery capable of derailing our march to freedom.
“We are determined that South East and South South shall never suffer the same fate as the Middle Belt, where Fulani impunity and murderous tendencies have all but rendered them a conquered people in a conquered territory.
“September 14 is the day we Biafrans shall collectively say to ourselves and the world that enough is enough! All the injustice that Nigeria has become can no longer be tolerated.
“What we are fighting against is slavery and subjugation by a very corrupt minority of unenlightened people who think it is their British given right to lord it over the majority. Our honour and dignity as Biafrans is at stake going by the utterances of Fulani police commissioners in the East that have taken it upon themselves to threaten an entire race of people.
“We must be mindful of the fact that this yearly Operation Python Dance, if allowed to continue, will become a permanent feature that will place our land under Jihadi military occupation for a third of the year. Our children and generations unborn will suffer the indignity of having soldiers blocking roads, molesting and killing people for full four months of each year.”
While stating that only a nation populated by cowards and idiots will allow such nonsense to stand, the group explained that the purpose of the sit-at-home’ order was born out of the need to constantly remind the zone that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is still missing along with his parents.
“Are we going to forget so soon that our wives, mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers were shamefully humiliated by a northern Fulani police commissioner in Owerri only a few weeks ago?
“No governor or socio-cultural leader rose up to that occasion to condemn their abominable and sacrilegious incarceration. Instead, these shameless men we call governors have decided to hand over their states to Fulani military and police commanders to do their dirty jobs for them.
“Some of those killed during Operation Python Dance 2 last year are yet to be properly identified and buried but here we are again confronted by another Operation Python Dance.
“Mass graves litter Biafraland that require urgent international investigation, another reason why we must sit-at-home. Those we regard as political leaders have turned to collaborators and agents of the oppressor. Some of them have publicly boasted that they will sabotage Biafra again as they did in the past. To correct all these anomalies in our land, we must sit-at-home on Friday, September 14 to send a clear unmistakable message that Biafra cannot be subdued, neither can the betrayal from Ohaneze Ndigbo and South East governors stop IPOB agitation.
“By observing the sit-at-home tomorrow, (Thursday), we, the people of Biafra would be conveying an unequivocal message to the international community that we are determined to live as free men in Biafra, away from bondage that Nigeria has become.
“14th of September 2018 will send the clearest message to our detractors that we as a people will no longer allow ourselves to be held hostage to Fulani military terrorism.
“We are aware of the fact that Nigeria security apparatus have rolled out their hardware ready to kill anybody that ventures out on the 14th. Trigger happy army and police will arrest and kill anybody found on the road on Friday, so the best advice is for every living soul to stay indoors during this general strike. Anybody seen outside tomorrow (Thursday) will only have him or herself to blame.
“Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his parents; our mothers who were humiliated in Owerri recently; those murdered in cold blood during operation python dance 2 last year, must be remembered and honoured tomorrow.
“There will be no human or vehicular movement of any sort from 10pm on Thursday 13th to 6 pm on Friday 14 of September. To avoid becoming a casualty of the army and police, please stay indoors. Fulani personnel in the Nigerian army and police are deployed and ready to kill innocent citizens of Biafra, don’t be one of them.”
IPOB urged residents to purchase household items they need before 10 pm to avoid being humiliated, molested, arrested or killed by soldiers and police officers stationed in the area