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The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared May
30, 2019, as a sit-at-home day in ‘Biafraland’ and Nigeria in
remembrance of its fallen heroes and heroines.
The pro-Biafra group urged religious institutions across the
country to offer special prayers the night before the day for Biafran
heroes murdered in cold blood in the region.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by its Media and Publicity
Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group said explained that the entire
Biafraland would be in total lockdown, adding that there would be no
human, vehicular or animal movements across Biafraland on that day.
The statement read, “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.
“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.”
