Sit-at-home order: IPOB destroying Igbos economy – Ex-presidential candidates

By Musa Baba Adamu

Ex-presidential candidates, under the aegis of ‘Patriotic Presidential Candidates Forum’, yesterday said leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is destroying the economy of the Igbos with his declaration of Monday a sit-at-home in the Southeast.
The forum however, lamented the huge cost the people of Southeast have incurred for observing sit-at-home out of fear in the past, adding that the order is gradually crippling the economy of the Igbos, whom it said are predominantly business people who value their time.
A statement on Sunday by the forum’s Co-Chairman and Spokesperson, Rabia Yassai Hassan Cengiz, said Nnamdi Kanu’s coordination of IPOB was anti-Igbo in the first place.
The statement said: “Igbos are hard-working and intelligent people, but it never occurred to them that Nnamdi Kalu may be an agent of destabilization and destruction being sponsored by foreign or local agents in order to destroy the Southeast.
“All his policies and programmes are anti-Igbo. He is destroying the Southeast and making Igbo to be hated by other Nigerians.
“Stay at home will not compel the government to release Nnamdi Kalu even if the stay at home order was observed to the latter.
“The forum noted that Nigeria runs on a set of laws, hence the charges against Kanu by the Federal government which is in Court must be allowed to run its full course, adding that the nation must not be intimidated by the fresh nebulous directives.
“There are charges against Nnamdi Kalu by the Federal government and the matter is in court by law an accused person remains innocent until proven guilty.
“It is the court that will prove him guilty or innocent, so asking the people of the Southeast to stay at home every Monday is satanic and consequential”, the group posited.