The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied declaring a one-month sit-at-home in the South East.

Spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful, who denied the allegation in a statement he released to newsmen on Friday, said, IPOB will never impose hardship on the people of the South East, emphasising that the order should be ignored.

His statement reads In part: “For public records, IPOB did not issue any threat and will never issue any threat to our people. IPOB can never impose any hardship on our people by issuing a one-month lockdown.

“IPOB is the people and the people are the IPOB, therefore, we cannot punish ourselves. Therefore, ignore it.”

According to Powerful, “the purported threat is coming from the Nigerian Government’s agent in Finland. He publicly threatened Biafran workers through his social media handle.

“He claimed he has imposed an impossible one month lockdown and threatened to attack the Nigerian security and government establishments.

“Why have the Nigerian government and the police refused to call their double agent and his criminal gang by their names?

“We call on Ndigbo to be very careful not to allow the sponsored criminals hiding under Biafra agitation to be used to destabilise Alaigbo. Only a criminal agent will threaten Ndigbo with a 30-day lockdown in this cruel economic hardship of Tinubu’s government. “

Meanwhile, the group has urged the people of the zone to lookout for any enforcer of the said one-month sit-at-home and report to them.

IPOB called on Ndigbo to deal with any criminal enforcing any lockdown in the South East.

“We call on Ndigbo, the vigilantes and the Igbo youths to cooperate with IPOB and ESN to secure our land from criminals.” (Saturday Sun)

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