Enugu Police warn IPOB against sit-at-home order.

The Enugu State Police Command has warned that it would resist any attempt by the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to force people to stay indoors on May 30, as they celebrate the 50 years of declaration of the defunct Biafran Republic.

IPOB had been engaged in what it described as sensitisation programme by appealing to the “Biafrans,” to observe May 30 as the 50 year anniversary of the declaration of Biafra by late Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu by sitting at home.

It has also been posting videos and sending oral messages in various languages in the South-East and South-South, including Igbo, Urhobo, Izan, Itsekiri, Isoko, pigin English, among others, through WhatsApp to the Biafrans on the need to stay at home on that day, which was also meant to honour those who died fighting to realise the dream country.

However, a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, PRO, of the command, Ebere Amaraizu, in Enugu, yesterday, on the campaign by IPOB that traders and other major stakeholders should sit at home as a sign of respect for those who died during and after the three years civil war from 1967 to 1970, warned that the police would not shirk in its responsibilities of maintaining peace and order.