- Ignore directive, Imo police boss cautions residents
- Anambra drivers’ association dissociate selves, says it’s counter-productive
The planned sit-at-home order declared for Monday, August 9, 2021, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been suspended indefinitely.
The IPOB said that a new date for the commencement of the sit-at-home order would be announced later.
The group stated that its suspension of the order followed pleas by well-meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land that the order is suspended to allow students from Igboland to participate in the NECO examinations.
Its spokesman, Emma Powerful in another statement, yesterday, insisted that the “sit-at-home” order was ‘sacrosanct.”
He said: “There will be no movement throughout Biafra land on Monday until our leader who is suffering for our freedom is released. This protest is peaceful but firm. Everybody is advised to stay indoors in total compliance.”
This was contained in a statement issued by the command, and signed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Abattam, and made available yesterday.
The CP advised the people of the state to be bold and resist any enforcement to adhere to such order.
A statement by ECTDA Executive Chairman, Denge Josef Umunnakwe Onoh, said: “ECTDA wishes to clarify that the authority also wishes to assure residents in the three local councils of the state capital that there will be no molestation of anybody conducting genuine business in the state except such a person is a miscreant in which case the law enforcement agents have been put on notice to deal with such nuisances.
“We, therefore, ask all business operators within the capital territory to ignore the propaganda of a sit-at-home order as the state government has put machinery in place to ensure that lives and property are secured.
In another development, a group, under the umbrella of Drivers Welfare Association (DWA) in Anambra State, has kicked against the proposed sit-at-home order, saying that it is not in the best interest of the people of Southeast.
Patron of the association, Pastor Obinna Anisiobi, who disclosed this to newsmen, yesterday, in Onitsha, said such an exercise if carried out, would be futile and counter-productive.
He, however, said that though the drivers usually support any move aimed at fighting marginalisation of the Southeast zone and Ndigbo in particular, the urge to issue certain orders has become alarming and would not work out in some cases.
The Guardian
