HURIWA, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to address the media in order to clear up the uncertainty surrounding the South East sit-at-home order.
This comes after a series of clashes, targeted violence, and attacks orchestrated by certain armed supporters of Finland-based Simon Ekpa.
People living and doing business in the South East have been under siege in recent months, preventing them from conducting legitimate operations.
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The IPOB leadership has distanced itself from any sit-at-home movement on numerous occasions, advising Nigerians living in the zone to go about their normal business, but this has not stopped the murdering of individuals in the South East in the name of sit-at-home.
There have been reports of deaths and maimings of innocent Nigerians who deviate from the sit-at-home edict for various reasons, as the South East is closed every Monday and on other occasions.
HURIWA is now urging Buhari, in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, to allow Kanu to personally face the media, reinforcing and absolutely verifying the suspension of the sit-at-home order.
HURIWA accused the police and other security services in the South East of being content while commoners were decimated, degraded, and on the edge of extinction.
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“The President should let Mazi Nnamdi Kanu speak to Igbo people to affirm or deny the report by his lawyers that he had ordered an end to the Sit-at-home order which one Mr. Simon Ekpa an alleged follower of the detained leader disputed and ordered for forceful implementation of the so called Sit-at-home order,” HURIWA pleaded.
The group also stated that a live television broadcast by Kanu on the uncertainty surrounding the sit-at-home order would dispel “some folks loyal to Simon Ekpa’s fears that Nnamdi Kanu did not order an end to the economically stagnant sit-at-home order in the South East of Nigeria.”
“Secondly, just as was done in Ukraine, President Muhammadu Buhari should democratise arms licences so sane adult Nigerians can bear AK-47 and AK-49.
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“If President Muhammadu Buhari is not the sponsor of the chaos in the South-East then let his government adopt a pragmatic approach such as permitting that Kanu addresses the media as a matter of extreme urgency to put an end to these killings,” it said.
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