The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has declared September 14, 2018 as a day of general strike, mourning and
resistance across the South East and neigbouring states.
The group said the decision was
reached as a result of what it called “the ongoing campaign of ethnic and
religious persecution, genocide and humiliation of the people of Biafra in
general.”
In a statement made available by the Media and Public Secretary of the group, Comrade Emma
Powerful, the IPOB claimed that the Igbo people in particular had been victims
of humiliation and ethnic persecutions in this regime of President Muhammadu
Buhari.
According to the statement, the
persecution of Igbo people culminates in the recent “abominable” incarceration
of innocent mothers, grand mothers and great grand mothers in Owerri prisons.
The IPOB added, “We the
Indigenous People of Biafra do hereby declare 14 September 2018 a day of
general strike, mourning and resistance across Biafraland.
“Inhabitants of South East/South
South and all conscientious Biafrans living in other parts of Nigeria and the
world are required to stay indoors away from work or daily business activities
throughout the day of the 14th of September 2018 to register our anger and
protest regarding the men and women killed at Afaraukwu in Umuahia during
Operation Python Dance II on September 14 last year, those killed in Ngwa, Aba,
Igweocha (Port Harcourt) and buried in unmarked mass graves as a result of
unprovoked military invasion of Biafraland by the Nigerian Army.
“We shall also remember all those
killed in the struggle for the restoration of Biafra independence since August
2015 when the army shot dead Mr Okafor in Onitsha on a peaceful march from
Nkpor to Onitsha main town. Their sacrifice will neither be forgotten nor will
it be in vain, because come what may, this generation of IPOB must and will
restore Biafra.
“The sacrilegious and disgraceful
humiliation of Igbo women, some of them great grand-mothers, ranks as one of
the most abominable act of desecration ever visited upon the land of Biafra in
recorded history. It will mark the defining event that completed the shame and
humiliation of the Igbo race. The cowardice and impotency of Igbo
socio-political and cultural leadership in the face of such humiliation by a
single Fulani police officer in Owerri is confirmation, if one is needed, that
South East and South South regions are conquered territories and vassal
colonies of the Sokoto caliphate.
“Nationwide general strike
observed as a sit-at-home across Biafraland on the 14th of September 2018, is
the only way we Biafrans can honour our fallen brethren and legitimately remind
our northern oppressors and their collaborators in our midst that enough is
enough! We do not want another Operation Python Dance or another mass murder of
Biafra agitators and humiliation of our mothers in our land. Biafraland we
state categorically, must emerge a free nation under God, whether our enemies
like it or not.
“What happened at Afaraukwu, the
desecration of house of a traditional ruler, the slaughter of innocent men and
women: the wholesale massacre along the Ngwa segment of Enugu-Igweocha (Port
Harcourt) Expresswa, countless number of mass graves across Biafraland, is
repulsive, inhumane, barbaric and worthy of total condemnation by all right
thinking people. We await the day United Nations and other world bodies will
give the issue of Biafra the same level of prominence it is giving Rhohingya.
“All businesses, offices,
markets, schools and road transportation will be shut down for 24 hours from
midnight of the 13th of September. There will be no human or vehicular movement
across Biafraland. People are expected to stay at home to pray for the soul of
the brave and reflect upon the bondage our land is under.
“Any person or persons seen
outside on the 14th of September 2018 will be classed as an enemy of the people
because only collaborators in Ohaneze and South East Governors Forum that
instigated Operation Python Dance and encouraged the army to kill unarmed
innocent IPOB agitators will dare challenge this directive.
“As well as honouring our heroes
that died in Afaraukwu a year ago and other places in Biafraland, 14 September
2018 shall expose who the saboteurs undermining the freedom of Biafra truly
are.”
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