Counsel: Kanu won’t forgive those enforcing sit-at-home in his name

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), says he will not forgive those enforcing sit-at-home order in his name.

Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained IPOB leader, in a post on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday, quoted Kanu as asking him to share their conversation when he visited him.

“Today, I met with Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu at the DSS. He greets you all – the faithful, loyal and honest and he instructed me (as of counsel) to tweet the following (in quotes),” the tweet reads.

“Any person or group of persons using my name, the name of IPOB or ESN in fundraising without my direct and express authorisation is committing a crime with my name and I will deal with such person, regardless of his place of residence.

“The details of the economic empowerment day (EED) are very comprehensive and I will personally unveil such details once I am released.

“The idea of endless sit-at-home has been hijacked by our oppressors as a means of rendering our land desolate and forcing our people to migrate out of our lands.

“They have, through enforcing the sit-at-home in south-east, gerrymandered Igboland to now exclude the Igbos in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Rivers, Edo, Delta and Benue.

“I will never forgive any person or group of persons still insisting on, and enforcing sit-at-home. I take it that such person is merely using my name to indirectly work against my release.”

The development comes days after IPOB said Mondays will now be known as “economic empowerment days” in the south east.

Emma Powerful, IPOB’s spokesperson, had said the EED will replace the sit-at-home order which Kanu had recently ended.

Peter Mbah, governor of Enugu, had said that the state loses N10 billion every Monday to the sit-at-home order. 

Powerful said the EED would help the south-east residents to devote their resources towards reversing the financial losses from the prolonged sit-at-home.