The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has strongly condemned the Anambra State Government’s decision to pay civil servants’ salaries on a pro-rata basis over their absence from work on Mondays as a result of illegal sit-at-home order, describing the move as a “declaration of war against the people.”
In a statement issued on Sunday, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, insisted that the sit-at-home observed across Anambra State remains a peaceful, voluntary and lawful civil protest in solidarity with the group’s detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Let it be stated clearly and without ambiguity: Anambra is not a military barracks. The people are not tenants in their own land. No governor has the lawful power to compel free citizens to open their businesses or move about against their will,” Powerful said.
He described the government’s decision to treat participation in the sit-at-home as misconduct as an attack on the dignity of the people.
“The frustration in Igboland is deep. The anger is justified. The pain is historic. And the Monday sit-at-home is a token expression of that collective burden,” he added.
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