Ohaneze Ndigbo worldwide Sunday called for collaboration between the federal government and southeast governors to end observation of Sit-at-Home order by the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB.
The group in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Abakaliki by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro regretted that the order has been hijacked by criminal elements which according to them is destroying the economic, social and academic of the zone.
Isiguzoro in the statement emphasized that the governor’s of the zone need help from the federal government to put out an end to the situation especially as IPOB has lost grip of the order.
The statement reads, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has paid attention to the outcry and heightening yearnings of the people of the southeast to end up the Sit at Home(s)observations which have hindered economic, social and academic activities in the zone.
” It’s clear that IPOB through their pronouncements has lost control of the exercise of Sit at Home adherence in the southeast and they need help to end it.
“There is evidence that criminals had hijacked the Mondays Sit At Home to perpetrate heinous crimes against humanity and people of southeast, with the random shootings in Enugu and Anambra last week with the continuous denial of IPOB, with warnings about dealing with the criminals enforcing Sit at Home is enough proof that southeast needs the attention of Federal Government in collaboration with the Southeast Governors to quell the activities of these criminals”.
“The nightmares and sufferings of the southeast residents deserve to be treated as a priority by President Buhari, as FG should solicit the Southeast Governors’ guidance on how to unravel the issue especially in some states. ” there are some Governors who had managed the situation and few others are helpless, Abia and Ebonyi have been peaceful and had thwarted the adherence to the Sit at Home orders,”.
“We are asking proponents of Sit at Home, that the enslavement of Igbos are over, in fact, we are sympathetic to the pains of the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, we have decided to take advantage of the fact that God controls the affairs of men in power and influence, he will be released at the appropriate time, but there are undergoing pains of the people of the southeast, and this must end up.
“Federal Government in collaboration with the Southeast Governors should end up the Sit at Home, as this is the avenues criminals hides to perpetrate violent crime, burning of public and private properties and killings of innocent people,” this is the heart desires of the people of the southeast who are helpless and now at the mercy of these criminals”.