Sit-At-Home Archives

Aug

05

2023

Kanu bans sit-at-home in the Southeast and introduces EED

Economy, Metro, NewsBiafra, Freedom, Metro, Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, Sit-At-Home

By Silas Mmadu and Sampson Ojeh Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the pro-Biafra group Indigenous People of Biafra IPoB, has banned all sit-at-home protests in the South-East and proclaimed every Monday in the area as Economic Empowerment Day (EED). Emma Powerful, the IPoB's media and publicity secretary, revealed this in a statement on Saturday. IPoB's statement provided further clarification, stating that "Economic Empowerment Day, or EED, refers to a day designated for mass mobilization of Biafrans to devote their resources and means toward reversing the sharp and unprecedented decline in the economic, educational, and social needs of our…

Aug

01

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Sit-At-Home: Nnamdi Kanu alleges FG financing Simon Ekpa to destabilize Southeast.

Amos Oge Kalu, Metro, News, OpinionBiafra, Freedom, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, Sit-At-Home

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB, has accused the Nigerian government of funding Simon Ekpa, a pro-Biafra activist who currently resides in Finland. Kanu said that Ekpa was being funded by the Nigerian government to instigate unrest throughout the Southeast. Simon Ekpa The IPOB leader claimed that the government was using the sit-at-home order to "destroy our once peaceful land." Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu's primary attorney, revealed the comment after Kanu's routine legal visit to the Department of State Services, or DSS. In the statement, it is said that Onyendu took advantage of the opportunity presented by the visit to remind…

Aug

01

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Nnamdi Kanu Speaks In a Video Confirming His Order Against Sit-At-Home.

Amos Oge Kalu, Metro, News, VideoBiafra, Freedom, Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, Sit-At-Home

A video has surfaced where the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, literally confirmed his resolve to put an end to the illegal sit-at-home order that is hurting the South East economy and other socio-political life. According to the embattled freedom fighter who is being held incommunicado by the Nigeria secret service against the order of a competent court of jurisdiction for his release, he is there for the Biafra people and so will not be part of anything that will hurt them. ""I want everywhere to be calm because my people are the reason…

Jul

30

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ohanaeze backs Gov. Mbah to stop sit-at-home in Enugu and South East

Metro, NewsMetro, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Sit-At-Home

On Sunday, the Enugu State chapter of the pan-Igbo sociocultural organization Ohanaeze Ndigbo reaffirmed its unwavering support for the State government's decision to call off the sit-at-home campaign. A section of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Simon Ekpa, who claimed to be the Biafran Prime Minister and lives in Finland, imposed the weekly sit-at-home. The organization is enforcing sit-at-home as a means of demanding the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is being held by Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS), the country's secret police. Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State However, the group praised the…

Dec

07

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

IPOB Counters Ekpa’s 5 Days Sit-At-Home Order, Describes It As Wicked, Stupid

Metro, News, OpinionBiafra, IPOB, Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, Sit-At-Home

IPOB PRESS RELEASE - 06/12/2022 The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our great prophet and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU wish to state unequivocally to the people of Biafra, friends of Biafra, and lovers of Biafra freedom that IPOB leadership did not issue any sit-at-home order on 9th,10th, 11th, 12th, 13th or 14th of December 2022. IPOB never issued any sit-at-home order on these days mentioned above because we are not miscreants, senseless, or jobless people. Every Biafran and resident in Biafra Land should ignore such orders…