The Monday 9th August 2021 Sit-at-Home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been suspended due to the National Examination Council (NECO) Exams for junior secondary schools which just started all over Nigeria
A new date for the commencement of the Sit-at-Home will be announced lated IPOB said.
The South-Eastern Nigeria separatist group had week, in what appeared to be in solidarity with it’s detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ordered for Sit-at-Home that would be observed every Monday throughout Igbo land, starting from August 9, until he be released by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
However, in a statement the IPOB Leader’s younger brother, Kanunta Kanu said the group arrived at the decision, after listening to pleas from well meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land that the order be suspended to allow students from Igbo land to participate in the NECO Exams.
He said IPOB has listened to voice of reasons from well-meaning individuals and groups within and outside Biafra land and had consider the fate of children who will be involved in the NECO Exams and based on that, we decided to shift grounds over the Sit-at-Home order 9NEWS NIGERIA reports
The statement added that IPOB on its part, having realized the academic deprivation the already marginalized Biafra students who entered for this year’s NECO would suffer, decided to suspend the Sit-at-home order to a later date, to allow the students take their exams.
Kanunta Kanu, the IPOB Leader brother equally made it clear that allowing the sit-at-home to go ahead as earlier announced, in the face of the NECO Exam would amount to assisting enemies of Biafra to inflict more injuries on her children.
“As a group fighting for the liberation of her people from oppression from her enemies, we realized that it would amount to assisting the said enemies to inflict more harm on our children if we do not suspend the sit-at-home order to allow Biafra students take their exams”.
While making it clear the sit-at-home order has not been cancelled, but only suspended for the sake of Biafra students taking this year’s NECO Exam, the statement called on all IPOB global family members and Biafrans at large to await further directives in this regard.
