{"id":91023,"date":"2023-06-28T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ipob-dismisses-rumour-of-week-long-sit-at-home-in-south-east"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:15:56","slug":"ipob-dismisses-rumour-of-week-long-sit-at-home-in-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ipob-dismisses-rumour-of-week-long-sit-at-home-in-south-east","title":{"rendered":"IPOB dismisses rumour of week-long sit-at-home in South East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has dismissed an audio message circulating on social media asking residents of the southeast to observe a one-week sit-at-home from July 3 to 10.<\/p>\n

The sit-at-home order, purported to have come from IPOB, with the tag #FreeNnamdiKanu, is aimed at forcing the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).<\/p>\n

The audio message claimed that there will be dire consequences for anyone who ventures out on the said dates.<\/p>\n

But the media and publicity secretary of IPOB, Mr Emma Powerful, told DAILY POST upon enquiry on Wednesday, that the audio message was not from his group.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must know whom madness sit-at-home is, and the criminal who is illegally destroying our land.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will issue an official press release against it in two to three days to the date declared in the audio, but for now, the leadership (of IPOB) has asked me not to give it attention or attraction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

IPOB had first declared every Monday a sit-at-home day in the South East, as a way to compel the Federal Government to release its leader Kanu, but later canceled it, upon plea that the exercise was taking a toll on the economy of the region.<\/p>\n

However, since its cancelation, some hoodlums have continued to enforce it, making many to compulsorily sit at home every Monday, despite IPOB\u2019s assurances.<\/p>\n

A factional leader of the group, Simon Ekpa, who is based in Finland, has continually supported the Monday exercise, and even threatened governors of Anambra and Enugu, Prof Chukwuma Soludo and Mr Peter Mbah respectively, who had spoken and cancelled the exercise in their states.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has dismissed an audio message circulating on social media asking residents of the southeast to observe a one-week sit-at-home from July 3 to 10. 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