The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has directed its members to ‘sit-at-home’ on May 30, 2019, in remembrance of their fallen heroes and heroines.
The Biafran group also called on religious organisations in the country to hold a special pray for on the night of 29th for its members killed on that day.
Emma Powerful, IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday evening saying that the entire Biafraland would be in total lockdown, adding that there would be no human, vehicular or animal movements across Biafra region on May 30.
“Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and Temples are encouraged to open their places of worship on the midnight of the 29th of May for special prayers in remembrance of all that died as a result of violence and sponsored killings,” the statement read.
Powerful continue in the statement:
“Special vigil will be held at the homes of select Biafran heroes and heroines who were murdered in cold blood in Biafraland.
“This year’s remembrance and sit-at-home order will be special because it will present a unique moment of shared pains and misery for all the families that lost their loved ones to war, hunger, starvation, disease, terrorism and state-sponsored killings going on now in Nigeria.
“We remember the heroic few that stood up against tyranny especially those that sacrificed their lives to defend the defenceless and those that lost their lives because there was no one to defend them.
“The middle-belt and Yoruba brethren are advised to join this historic sit at home order to honour the memory of all that died unjustly in Nigeria.
“We are calling on all the people of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt especially Benue, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Kogi, those affected by herdsmen terrorism in Ondo, Osun and other states in Yorubaland to join the great family of IPOB in observing a day of solemn prayer and sit at home to remember those that lost their lives unlawfully at the hands of Fulani terrorist herdsmen and security agencies even during the recently concluded fraudulent 2019 general elections.”
“In our usual tradition, all IPOB families in the diaspora must rally on the streets of their respective countries with written petitions ready to be submitted to the nearest United Nation offices and embassies of foreign missions in that country.”
