Pro-Biafra Groups Confirm Kanu’s Letter Calling for End to Sit-at-home as Authentic
Gideon Arinze in Enugu
Leaders of Pro- Biafra Groups in Enugu State have confirmed that the letter said to have been written by leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, calling for an end to the sit-at-home in the South-east was authentic.
Kanu had on Friday, issued a directive to Finland-based self-acclaimed disciple, Simon Ekpa, to end all sit-at-home in the South-east via a letter made public on Friday by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.
In the letter, Kanu warned that anyone enforcing sit-at-home in the southeast was not his disciple and should be made to face the full wrath of the law.
But in his reaction, Ekpa took to Twitter to describe the letter as fake and untrue, calling on Biafran to disregard it.
However, addressing journalists on behalf of the leaders yesterday , Director-General, De Biafra Mobilisers Initiative, one of the groups, Rita Anigbogu, confirmed that the letter made public by Ejimakor emanated from Kanu and that anyone claiming otherwise is doing so for ulterior motives.
According to her, the IPOB leader now understands that the Biafran struggle is a political issue that requires collaboration with the political leaders of Igboland to make a successful case for Biafra.
Anigbogu, who said she worked as the Chief of Staff to Kanu and also appointed Ekpa the Finland Coordinator of IPOB said that the sit-at-home had been counterproductive, a waste of time, resources and energy and indeed a self-enslavement that inflicts unnecessary hardships on the people.
“Ekpa should cease and listen to voices of reason because there is no way we will realize Biafra from the barrel of the gun,” she said.
“We have been to war and through tutelage and education, now understand international politics and diplomacy,”. “The Biafran issue should be negotiated,” she added.
She explained that the political leaders, even governors with the best intention, cannot do anything if the region continues to sit at home every Monday and other days of the week.
“Kanu has seen that sit-at-home will do us terrible harm,” she said. “It therefore beats our imagination that anyone with Biafra blood running in his veins would contemplate a continuation of the exercise and worse still asking a region to sit-at-home for two full weeks.”
The groups called on the government to go after the criminals enforcing the order with every might and resources at its disposal.
