The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied the allegation that it gave an order calling for a one-month sit-at-home in the South East.
The spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, denied the allegation in a statement he released to reporters on Friday.
Powerful said IPOB will never give an order which will in turn bring about hardship on the people of the South East, adding that the directive should be ignored.
“For public records, IPOB did not issue any threat and will never issue any threat to our people. IPOB can never impose any hardship on our people by issuing a one-month lockdown,” he said.
“IPOB is the people and the people are the IPOB, therefore, we cannot punish ourselves. Therefore, ignore it.
“The purported threat is coming from the Nigerian Government’s agent in Finland. He publicly threatened Biafran workers through his social media handle.
“He claimed he has imposed an impossible one month lockdown and threatened to attack the Nigerian security and government establishments.
“Why have the Nigerian government and the police refused to call their double agent and his criminal gang by their names?
“We call on Ndigbo to be very careful not to allow the sponsored criminals hiding under Biafra agitation to be used to destabilise Alaigbo.
“Only a criminal agent will threaten Ndigbo with a 30-day lockdown in this cruel economic hardship of Tinubu’s government. “
Powerful, meanwhile, has urged the people of the South East region to be on the look out for any enforcer of the alleged one-month sit-at-home and report to IPOB.
“We call on Ndigbo, the vigilantes and the Igbo youths to cooperate with IPOB and ESN to secure our land from criminals.”
