Biafra: ‘Business in South-East crumbling, IPOB must end sit-at-home now’ – Ohanaeze

The Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned against the harsh effects of the planned one week sit-at-home directive by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), in the South-East region.

In a statement by its Secretary General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro on Tuesday, against the backdrops of the planned exercise by the pro-Biafra group, Ohanaeze, maintained that the planned one week sit-at-home declared by the group was gradually having severe and destructive impacts on the genuine quest of the people to enhance and harness the economic potentials of the South-East for her development.

It was gathered that the pro-Biafra group had insisted to shut down the entire Igboland as parts of demands, for unconditional release of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently facing treasonable felony charges before a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Continuing, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo revealed that proponents of sit-at-home are envoys on a move to destroy the only remaining assets (commerce) of the Igbos, in the face of external detractors, regretting that South-East had recorded exits of local and foreign investors from the region in the last two months, which, according to the group, created high level of unemployment, loss of jobs and disruption of the academic calendar.

The apex socio-cultural group noted with dismay that “the fact that successive and current Nigerian system had treated south-easterners in bad morality and faith, we must not resort to path of self destruction”, advising the people of the region not to affiliate with those he alleged ‘remotes Ndigbo from overseas’.

According to the Igbo body, “proponents of sit-at-home are not observing the exercise at abroad where they reside in Asia, Europe, and America, ndigbo are wiser now than before. No more sit-at- home. We are in support of out-of-court settlements that will make Nnamdi Kanu regain his freedom, not through absurd enslavement of the people with the one week planned sit-at-home exercise”.

The Ohanaeze further re-echoed the call for genuine dialogue between internally-displaced Igbo politicians and the people, especially, to end the revolt against the elites.

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