The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described May 30, 2019, stay at home as a religious obligation it owed its indigenes who were over the years killed in droves over their struggle for freedom as well as victims of the Biafra civil war.

A statement by the group's Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful on Sunday, IPOB declared that the May 30 sit-at-home order is a must.

The group condemned what it described as police meddling in their affairs saying that the sit at home order would take place, not just in Nigeria but in about 100 countries of the world.

The statement read: "IPOB would go ahead with the sit at home order as planned. Police has no powers in any law to interfere in anybody’s religious affairs; rather it is an inalienable right of every human.

"All Biafrans, no matter the states they are located, must honour and remember their heroes and heroines of the 1967 to 1970 Nigeria- Biafra war and others unjustly killed over the years".

"Every family, kindred, village, clan, town across the length and breadth of Eastern region, Mid-West and Middle Belt is expected to remain indoors from 6pm on Tuesday, the 29th to 6pm on the 30th of May.

While noting that a team of local and international observers will be on ground to monitor the exercise, IPOB noted that the sit-at-home is the way for Biafrans to convey to the whole world their determination to forge a distinct path away from the killing field that Nigeria has become.

The group maintained that there is no other easy way to attract the attention of the world than ensuring that the entire East, Midwest and Middle Belt is completely locked down on May 30.

Continuing, the statement reads: "All over the world in over 100 countries and territories, IPOB family meetings will gather to rally and offer prayers in memory of our heroes that sacrificed their lives that we may live.

"We owe our Biafran soldiers that fell in battle an eternal debt of gratitude which our annual sit at-home is only but a minor but significant contribution this generation can make in acknowledgement and honour of their supreme sacrifice.

"All Fulani Police Commissioners that liter Biafra land must desist from commenting about this solemn occasion. Some of them have offered comments that we deem insulting to the memory of the dead.

Though IPOB is sticking to their guns, the Anambra State Police Command has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra as a proscribed organization lacks the right to declare a protest order.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Garba while saying that the command will leave no stone unturned described the group as misguided elements.

According to him, the command will deal decisively with any group or individual that meddle with public peace.

He called on inhabitants of the state not to place any importance to the order, and to go about their lawful normal business.

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