Kanunta Kanu, Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother, has disagreed with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over sit-at-home order today.
While Kanunta Kanu said IPOB has suspended today’s sit-at-home order, citing the commencement of the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations for junior secondary schools as reason, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said the sit-at-home order remained sacrosanct.
The pro-Biafra group had penultimate week, in solidarity with its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ordered sit-at-home that should be observed every Monday throughout Igbo land.
A statement endorsed by IPOB leader’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu, said the group suspended sit-at-home after listening to pleas from well-meaning individuals and groups within and outside Igbo land that the order be suspended to allow students from Igbo land participate in the NECO exams.
The statement read, “IPOB has listened to pleas from well-meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land that we consider the fate of our children who will be involved in the NECO exam and based on that, we decided to shift grounds over the sit-at-home order”.
It added that IPOB on its part, having realised the academic deprivation the already marginalised students who entered for this year’s NECO would suffer, decided to suspend the sit-at-home order to a later date, to allow the students take their exams.
Younger Kanu said that allowing the sit-at-home to go ahead as earlier announced, in the face of the NECO exams would amount to assisting enemies of Biafra to inflict more injuries on her children.
“As a group fighting for the liberation of her people from oppression from her enemies, we realised that it would amount to assisting the said enemies to inflict more harm on our children if we do not suspend the sit-at-home order to allow Biafra students take their exams”.
According to him, the sit-at-home order has not been cancelled, but only suspended for the sake of Biafra students taking this year’s NECO exams.
The statement called on all IPOB global family members and Biafrans at large to await further directives in this regard.
However, IPOB has denied the purported suspension of today’s sit-at-home, saying the order remained sacrosanct.
A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said the sit-at-home order remained sacrosanct, warning that anybody who ventured to come out today would regret his or her life.
“The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the purported suspension of Monday sit-at-home order issued by the leadership of IPOB. We wish to remind every Biafran that the sit-at-home order remains sacrosanct on Monday tomorrow.
“Anybody issuing press statement concerning IPOB sit-at-home order is fake”, Emma Powerful said.
“Therefore, every Biafran should disregard every statement that is not from Emma Powerful or DOS and radio Biafra.
“We know the situation of those going for exams tomorrow but our demand is for them to release our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and our people must understand that Fulani terrorists and Co. stopped our people from going to school for three years during the genocidal war in 1967 to 1970 and it did not kill our people and this is one day sacrifice for the release of somebody who has sacrificed a lot for our land.
“…We warn you tomorrow is total lockdown in every part of Biafra”, the statement read.
