The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has cautioned the Governor of Anambra State,Chukwuma Soludo and his Southeast brother-Governors to stop threatening Ndigbo over their decision to stay indoors on Mondays, saying that it’s their sacrifice to press for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the group’s media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful urged the Anambra Governor to “please know that people staying at home on Mondays are doing so voluntarily not because of any threat from inconsequential individuals or coercive action by any actors.”
” Ask anybody, including those purportedly enforcing the order, they will tell you that the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is all they require to stop,” Powerful said.
“Biafrans see this act of self-sacrifice on Mondays as the only way to register their protest and displeasure at the unwarranted and continued unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
In the same vein, the group has expressed its disappointment with the Anambra Governor and his colleagues for reneging to push for the release of Kanu.
“The same people you are asking to abandon their quiet protest on Mondays are the same people you and your fellow Governors from the south-east have repeatedly disappointed in your calculated failure to honour your word to visit the Nigerian president to formally request for the release of our leader,” Powerful said.
“It’s nearly six months now since you and your fellow Governors resolved in your meeting at Enugu to visit President Tinubu to effect the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but till date nothing has happened.
“Insecurity in your own beautiful State of Anambra is still raging and you know that the only thing that can bring this sorry state of affairs to an immediate halt is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yet you have failed to activate this solution.
“It’s also on record that Southeast Governors have failed to honour their pledge to Igbo people worldwide to visit the presidency to press for the release of our leader. As long as this remains the state of affairs, most people will choose Monday as the day to protest against the unlawful detention of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“You Southeast Governors are playing politics with this issue of Monday sit-at-home and the attending Insecurity across our land because you all underestimate the deep seated anger and resentment our people feel at the impotency of the leadership to make a simple trip to Abuja.
“Deep down in your hearts, you know that you Governors are directly benefiting, financially, from the chaos and mayhem, death and misery bedeviling the ancient and sacred land of the Igbo race.
“Some of you Governors who are happily enjoying an inflated security budget on the back of insecurity in our land, occasioned by the illegal incarceration of our leader, are to blame for the raging insecurity in our land because you are the direct beneficiaries of insecurity.
“Those that choose to sit-at-home on Mondays are exercising their right to peaceful protest. You are not in a position to sanction them when they have not broken any laws. Those choosing to sit-at-home are doing so because of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and nobody else. You cannot stop it by force.”
