12 Igbo Groups Endorse IPOB’s Sit-At-Home Order

Twelve Igbo groups have endorsed the September 14, 2018, sit- at- home order in the old eastern region by IPOB. The groups met in Enugu yesterday, insisting that the order must be obeyed to the letter.

The meeting which held at the residence of Chief Maria Okwor, who was also the convener, was attended by traditional rulers, traders’ associations, youth groups and student organisations among others.

Addressing reporters shortly after the meeting, Okwor lamented what she described as the humiliation meted out to Igbo women who were locked up in Owerri for expressing their opinions in a democracy.

Okwor complained bitterly over the continuous ill treatment of Ndigbo as a conquered people and urged the people, “to sit at home on Friday, September 14, 2018 to express our frustrations with Nigeria.”

She insisted that Nigeria must be returned in accordance with the 1963 constitution for the country to survive. Secretary of ECA and founder of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko who also spoke on the occasion, described the invasion of Igboland with military hardware every September as provocative and insulting.

His words: “Every September, military equipment is moved menacingly into Igbo land just to remind us that we are a conquered people.

“Next, they will say some students threw stones at them and mayhem will be unleashed on our people. There’s no war going on here, there are no killings going on here. Igbo land is peaceful,why the constant invasion?

“The soldiers should be drafted to the Sambisa Forest in Borno State and other local governments where killings are going on everyday.

“Bringing the so-called Operation Python Dance 3 to our peaceful region now is only designed to deliberately provoke a confrontation that will lead to further loss of lives as they did last year.

“The meeting also agreed to organise a street march in October to drive home their demand for a new constitution,asserting that the rigid unitary constitution designed by the military is an evil document.”