BREAKING: IPOB Suspends ‘Sit At Home’ Order
The Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) planned sit-at-home protest, which was supposed to start tomorrow, Monday, has been postponed due to the National Examination Council’s (NECO) junior secondary school examination.
IPOB noted that a new date for the sit-at-home order’s implementation would be announced later.
The pro-Biafra organization had a penultimate week, in what looked to be sympathy with its arrested leader, Nnamdi Kanu, declared a sit-at-home on Mondays across Igbo country, beginning August 9, until the IPOB leader is released.
However, in a statement issued by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu, IPOB indicated that the decision was reached after hearing petitions from well-meaning persons and groups that the order be suspended to allow students in Igbo country to take the NECO examination.
“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.”
“IPOB having realized the academic deprivation the already marginalized Biafra 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 to take their examinations.
‘Allowing the sit-at-home to go ahead as earlier announced, in the face of the NECO Exam 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 realized 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 to take their exams”.
The statement further explained that the sit-at-home order has not been cancelled, but only suspended for the sake of Biafra students taking this year’s NECO examination and called on IPOB members to await further directives.
