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The Indigenous People of Biafra IPBO has denied issuing a sit-at-home order in the south east and has asked residents to go about their normal business as the order did not emanate from the group.
ccording to the punch newspaper, a voice not has been circulating on social-media urging residents to observe sit-at-home on Monday 21st October and Tuesday 22nd October 2024 threatening severe consequence on anyone who violates the order.
This development has generated panic and chaos, particularly in Anambra as some official and non-official engagements fixed for those days have been rescheduled.
Report has it that the judicial/court cases slated for the two days has been rescheduled, according to a sourceb who wants to remain annonymous, it became necessary so as to avoid a scenarios whereby vehicles conveying prisoners will be hijacked and lives could be lost. There was also panic buying of food items by residents as no one knows what could happen next.
In Enugu, the streets were deserted as offices were under lock and key as residents stayed home. One of the residents spoken to said that people stayed home out of fear of the unknown as no one is sure of police and military protection on the streets.
But while reacting to the development, the pro-Biafran group urged the people to go about their normal business, saying the “illegal” sit-at-home declaration order did not emanate from IPOB, but rather from criminal elements and infiltrators, who are not members of IPOB.
In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said, “IPOB did not declare any sit-at-home order on October 21 and 22. The illegal order is from criminal elements and Finland-based infiltrators who are not our members.
“We urged our people to ignore the order and go about their normal business on those days. IPOB does not want to talk about it because we don’t want to create panic over the matter.
“Biafrans must understand that IPOB does not declare unnecessary sit-at-home. We have since suspended it and anybody declaring it is a criminal element that should be ignored.
“We didn’t want to talk about it again in order to avoid giving undue popularity to the inconsequential order from Finland-based infiltrators.”
