Kanu: IPOB declares Sept 23 sit-at-home day

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says, it will leave no stone un-turned come Friday September 23, 2016 to ensure a worldwide sit at home protest over the continued detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the federal government over 11 months ago.

The organisation therefore asked all to stay at home come that day in their support for the agitation.

According to a release by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, the protest will be conducted “around major cities of the world, from Sydney Australia to Toronto Canada; from Moscow in Russia to Sao Paulo in Brazil – everywhere will reverberate to the theme of freedom”.

The protest, IPOB said, “will be demonstrated across the globe to let Nigeria understand that Indigenous IPOB is indeed a global phenomenon unrivaled in the history of modern freedom fighting. In more than 100 countries and territories around the world, mankind will know who Nnamdi Kanu is.  At the end of this exercise, countries will know who Nnamdi Kanu is, more than any other African alive”.

On that day, the organization said, petitions and letters will be delivered to Presidents, Prime Ministers, Chancellors and Heads of State of over 100 countries where “hardcore Biafrans, friends of Biafra, even enemies of Biafra in Aso Rock alike will feel the impact of this irrepressible human force yearning for freedom of their leader and their nation Biafra”.

“Some in Abuja may find it scary especially those at the corridors of powers that misguided Buhari to make the worst political mistake in the history of Nigeria which is the arrest and illegal detention of our leader.  History will record that the decline of Nigeria started with the kidnap of our leader on that fateful evening in Lagos.

“That was the day that Nigeria entered into a phase of irreversible decline that will inevitably end with its breakup and emergence of Biafra.  There is nothing anybody can do about it because Chukwu Okike Abiama (God Almighty) that sent Nnamdi Kanu has taken over our mission and is literally directing it from haven”, the release said.

“Famine, plague, economic depression, earthquakes, hunger and despair in Nigeria is here to stay because Buhari touched an anointed man and refused to release him despite several court orders to do so.

“IPOB will be compounding the economic misery further as all activities in entire Biafraland will be brought to a halt in solidarity with our leader Nnamdi Kanu.

“We are demanding for the release of our leader who the courts have determined time and time again that he is innocent. Governments of the world and their citizens will be made to see the administration for exactly what it is.  Dictatorship run by a cabal of bumbling incompetent unrepentant religious zealots. It is in the interest of Buhari and the powers that be in Nigeria to release Nnamdi Kanu because the longer his illegal detention lasts the more innocent people will perish because God’s anger is upon the land already.

“It is now 11 agonising months since he was kidnapped for a fathom, baseless and unfounded allegation based on a witch hunt against the Biafrans by the federal government of Nigeria and security agents. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had been in illegal detention since last year with Buhari repeatedly refusing to obey the pronouncements of courts of competent jurisdiction to release an innocent man”, IPOB said.