The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently in prison, has reiterated his call for the suspension of regular sit-ins in the country’s southeast.
Kanu issued a statement through his attorney Mike Ozekhome, SAN in a video that was seen by the press.
On Monday, Dan Nwomeh, Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State’s Senior Special Assistant, Mainstream Media, posted the video on his Twitter account.
Ozekhome reports that Kanu disavowed the sit-in, saying he could not simultaneously fight for his people and shut down their economy.
He lamented that the people’s mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being had been severely restricted due to the sit-at-home exercise’s impact on their social, economic, cultural, and political lives.
When I asked him about the Sit-at-home movement, he informed me, “As your lead counsel and lawyer, I can tell you that he does not believe in it. He cannot fight for his people while simultaneously crippling their economy.” What do they eat? In what manner will they bring up their kids? He has begged to be set free in my presence on numerous occasions, saying things like, “Don’t stay at home on Mondays, go about your normal duties, go to work; because the Bible says it is upon the labour of your hands, I will bless the fruits of your labour,” meaning that God will bless the people of the world if they go to work.
So, Kanu said through Ozekhome, “I am now re-echoing again and again what Nnamdi Kanu has told me: ‘He does not believe in that sit-at-home on Mondays.'” This practise “cripples the social-economic, social-cultural, and political life of the people, putting them under psychological, psychical, and mental stricture and torture,” Kanu said.
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