Sit-at-Home: IPOB Warns Police Commissioners in South-east against Interference

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned police bosses in the South-east not to interfere in the proposed sit-at-home protest fixed for Wednesday, saying they have no right to determine how Igbos choose to honour their fallen hero.

IPOB was reacting to a statement by the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Garba, in which he called on residents of Anambra State to disregard the order, adding that the group was outlawed and had not powers to order a sit at home protest.

The group through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, acknowledged that police bosses in all the states that make up the Southeast were mostly from the North and had no powers to determine how the Igbos honoured their departed brothers.

He said: “All Fulani police commissioners that litter South-east must desist from commenting about this solemn occasion. Some of them have offered comments that we deem insulting to the memory of the dead.

“We don’t have a say about how they honour their victims of Boko Haram violence in core North and those killed by their fellow Fulani terrorists. We have chosen sit-at-home as the best way to say thank you to all our brave soldiers for what they did for us between 1967 to 1970.

“It will be crass insensitivity of the highest order for any Fulani police or army officer in the South-east to intrude upon our grief.”

The group insisted that the Southeast and South-south, including other states marked out for the exercise would be locked down on May 30, and that nothing can stop it.