IPOB confirms authenticity of Kanu’s order to end sit-at-home in S’East

<p>Enugu Youths Storm Streets In Celebration The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday confirmed the authenticity of the handwritten note by its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to Simeon Ekpa ordering him to stop calling sit-at-home on his behalf in the South East region.</p>, <p>This was as Enugu youths stormed the streets yesterday in support of the IPOB leader’s directive to Ekpa to end the illegal sit-at-home that has ruined lives and businesses in the region.</p>, <p>Recall that Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, had unveiled and read the note at a press briefing in Enugu last Friday. No sooner had the note been made public than Ekpa dismissed it as “fake”, saying it was orchestrated by the Department of State Services (DSS) and other government agencies. He had gone further to question the rationale behind it.</p>, <p>But in a statement forwarded to The Guardian in Enugu by the IPOB, the group also dissociated itself and Kanu from “the senseless enforcement of sit-at-home”, stressing that it decided to make it public to avoid consequences on innocent citizens.</p>, <p>The statement signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, stated that Kanu in his wisdom, “communicated the message to the infiltrators through the right channel and a source they should trust.”</p>, <p>Heb added: “The claim that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s handwritten note is fake is part of their mischief to continue in their contract to blackmail IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with the violent enforcement of the infamous sit-at-home used to terrorise our people. We understand that a power drunk crime Minister with his inconsequential kangaroo de facto government in exile will ignore the order for the fear of deflating his over bloated ego.</p>, <p>“IPOB leadership initiated the Monday sit-at-home in protest of the abduction and rendition of our leader and to make sure that the Nigeria government arraigned Mazi Nnamdi Kanu openly, in a public court where we could see him. But our leader instructed that it be suspended so t