Residents of the Southeast have been urged by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, to reject the unnamed group’s sit-at-home directive.
IPOB explained in a statement issued on Monday that their pro-Biafra group was not the source of this instruction.
Notes that social media users have been sharing audio and video messages alerting locals to stay off the streets.
Additionally, the messages urged guardians and parents to keep their kids at home instead of sending them to school.
Additionally, owners of markets and shops were advised not to open during this time.
Threats against anyone who disobeys the two-day sit-at-home edict, which is scheduled to run from Monday, October 21, to Tuesday, October 22, were included in the texts.
IPOB has responded by urging locals to carry on with their regular daily routines.
“IPOB did not declare any sit-at-home order on October 21 and 22,” stated Emma Powerful, the spokesperson for IPOB.
“The illegal order is from criminal elements and Finland-based infiltrators who are not our members”.
He continued, “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 to avoid giving undue popularity to the inconsequential order from Finland-based infiltrators,” Powerful added.
