Sit-at-home: Ohanaeze youths urge S’East residents to shun IPOB fresh order

Youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has called on the people of South-East to shut the Monday sit-at-home declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

It could be recalled that as part of the raging controversy involving Onitsha Main Market traders and Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful said there will be a sit-at-home across the South-East tomorrow, Monday, February 2.

However, Ohanaeze youths in a statement issued on Sunday by its National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike urged all the residents of South-East to go about the lawful businesses.

Okwu, who described the sit-at-home directive as self-serving, noted that Ndigbo would no longer be drawn into non-profitable ventures.

He recalled that IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, had on several occasions warned against any form of sit-at-home in the South-East.

“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu spoke clearly that he was against it; he described it as economic sabotage against the South-East.

“Why then will anyone come again and say he is declaring sit-at-home. The implication is that it is self-serving an ego trip by those who do not mean well for Ndigbo.

“Nobody should obey such a reckless directive which has also been disowned by the IPOB Directorate of State, DOS. People should stop hiding under Biafra agitation to destroy Igbo land. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is never in support of anything that is bringing harm to our people.

“We then urge Onitsha Main Market traders, and indeed every other market, private and public institutions in the region, to ensure that they open for normal businesses and activities tomorrow, Monday, February 2.

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