The idea that the Indigenous People of Biafra ordered a one-week sit-at-home exercise in the South-East region has been debunked once more by the group.
The pro-Biafran group claimed that the strain and terror the rumors had caused made the clarification imperative.
Since a few days ago, the rumor has been spreading around the area that Simon Ekpa's branch of the IPOB organization has proclaimed a one-week sit-at-home period from June 3 to June 9.
The IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, responded to the development in a statement on Monday, saying South-East citizens should disregard the "rabble-rousers" and stressing there is no such thing as a sit-at-home day.
The statement said, in part, that the IPOB leadership, the Directorate of State, and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the group's supreme commander, "wish to publicly disassociate IPOB from any purported call for a one-week sit-at-home strike by Biafrans."
"Biafrans have written to enquire if the IPOB leadership has called for a sit-at-home, necessitating these clarifications. IPOB does not support such reckless orders from government-funded individuals whose goal is to disparage the fight to reestablish Biafra sovereignty.
Therefore, Biafrans ought to disregard the agitators. There isn't a sit-at-home planned. The so-called "sit-at-home for a week" melody trending on social media is not from IPOB. We are not in the business of giving out careless and fictitious commands to stay at home. The IPOB movement and family are good people. Our goals are to grant our people independence and peace rather than to add to the suffering Nigeria has already caused us.
"Those who entered by the back door are merely thieves. Thieves are here to steal, kill, and wreck. The Federal Government's security officers and the agent provocateurs are working together to maintain
"How can we keep our people inside for a week in Nigeria's difficult economic times? Our folks need to start using logic. Agents of the Federal Government are attempting to make it unattractive for our people to return to the South-East. They were ineffective.
The group made the observation that those in charge of IPOB affairs are intelligent individuals who are aware of when to use various tactics and who refrain from engaging in actions that will harm the populace.
"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, our leader, cannot partake in anything that will make our people's suffering worse. The pointless one-week sit-at-home order issued by agents ostensibly fighting for the freedom of Biafra should be disregarded by our people.
Some of these Nigerian agents' foot soldiers in the diaspora are unaware that they are being employed by anti-Biafra forces to inflict pain on Biafrans in order to delegitimize the Biafra agitation led by Kanu's IPOB. However, their plan is already doomed.
Therefore, the general public ought to disregard any rumors of a one-week stay-at-home ban in the South-East. These heinous commands are being carried out by people who are neither IPOB members or employees of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the statement continued.
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