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Kanu: IPOB sit-at-home order unwise, Ohanaeze warns
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned that the sit-at-home order announced in support of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is unwise.
This comes as IPOB announced the order for every Monday, starting from August 9, in solidarity with their leader, Kanu, who is being held in the custody of the Department of State Services for several charges among which are possession of illegal firearms, terrorism, and treasonable felony.
However, in a recent interview with The PUNCH, National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, cautioned that the sit-at-home would increase the hardship the Igbos were going through with the military and police checkpoints that are stiflingly the economy of the region.
Ogbonnia advised the group that instead of declaring an every Monday sit-at-home, they should come together to discuss those issues and resolve them jointly on the way forward.
Speaking further, the spokesman appealed to the military and police authorities to stop the militarisation of South-East where every kilometre has sighted a checkpoint like a conquered territory.
He said, “Kanu is no longer an issue of a group operating in Igboland. Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has demonstrated that there is the need for us to come together and discuss on the next line of action.
“For a group to come up to try to dictate for the Igbo on the days to go to work and days they shouldn’t go to work for Nnamdi Kanu is unwise. The wise thing to do is to make wider consultation with the people and the leadership of the region.
“They (IPOB) will be adding hardship to the Igbos by that proclamation the same way the military checkpoints are adding hardship to the people of Igbo by continuous victimization of the innocent.
“So the military, police should listen to us and reduce so many checkpoints that they mounted everywhere and send the operatives to northern states where insurgency and bandits are having field day.”
The Ohanaeze spokesman maintained that “blockages with checkpoints everywhere are causing hardship to Igbo people and all these things are part of agitation we are talking about.
“While we are urging our youths to come to us to discuss on how to go about our collective agitation, am also urging the Inspector General of Police and Chief of Army Staff, that they should reduce the hardship of Igbos by numerous checkpoints in Igbo land. How can every kilometre have checkpoint like a conquered territory?”
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