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- Anambra authorities constabulary bid has made a caller pledge to the bully radical of the portion arsenic IPOB issued a caller directive
- The pro-Biafran radical dared the constabulary and declared May 30, a time to honour their fallen heroes but urged residents to enactment astatine home
- The spokesperson of the Anambra authorities constabulary bid has urged the residents to disregard the directive, noting, the Force would beef up information successful the portion connected the said date
Legit.ng writer Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reportedly declared Thursday, May 30, 2024, arsenic a sit-at-home time crossed the southeast to observe those they termed Biafran heroes.
IPOB besides called connected Christians and accepted worshipers to usage the time to commune for the fallen heroes and for Biafra’s independency from Nigeria, The Nation reported.
Sit-at-home: Police to beef up information pursuing IPOB's directive
As reported by Vanguard, the accusation was contained successful a connection signed by the group's spokesperson, Emma Powerful, connected Thursday, May 2.
The radical said the sit-at-home was to honour Biafran heroes who died during the civilian warfare of 1967 to 1970. IPOB added that determination would beryllium nary movements successful the region.
But successful a swift absorption to the development, the Anambra authorities police bid maintained that it would support residents, The Punch reported.
The spokesperson for the police, Tochukwu Ikenga, said:
“The constabulary are committed to making definite that residents are protected wherever they are and arsenic they spell astir their mean businesses, they should remainder assured that they volition person capable security.”Also reacting to the development, the zonal constabulary nationalist relations officer, Zone 13 command, Josephine Ihunwo, said:
“We are not yet alert of the improvement but residents are assured of capable information arsenic they spell astir their mean businesses mundane without immoderate fearfulness oregon intimidation by immoderate group.”Meawhile, the Zone 13 Police Command successful Ukpo-Dinukofia, Anambra State controls constabulary formations successful Anambra, Enugu and immoderate parts of Ebonyi state.
Simon Ekpa does not privation to extremity sit-at-home
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the lawmaker representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, revealed wherefore Ekpa does not privation to halt the sit-at-home order successful the southeast portion of the country.
Abaribe said the bid has go a money-making strategy for Ekpa and his cohorts.
He said that adjacent with the hand-written connection from the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Ekpa refused to reverse the sit-at-home bid due to the fact that helium was profiting from it.
Source: Legit.ng
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