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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged Southeasterners to dismiss the one-week sit-at-home order being circulated, alleging that the directive did not come from its leadership but rather from government agents.

Amid calls for the immediate release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, from custody, Simon Ekpa, a prominent Biafra agitator and separatist, had insisted on a weeklong sit-at-home in the Southeast region.

However, IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, revealed that the one-week sit-at-home order was orchestrated by government-paid agents.

Powerful’s statement reads: “The Leadership of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, the Directorate Of State, DOS, and the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU wishes to publicly disassociate IPOB from any purported call for a one-week sit-at-home in Biafraland.

“This clarification has become necessary because Biafrans have sent inquiries asking if the IPOB leadership has called for a sit-at-home. IPOB is not part of such irresponsible order from government-paid agents whose agenda is to ridicule the struggle to restore Biafra sovereignty. Therefore, Biafrans should ignore the rabble-rousers. There is NO sit-at-home scheduled.

“The purported one-week sit-at-home jingle on social media is NOT from IPOB.

“We are not in the business of issuing irresponsible and non-existent sit-at-home orders. IPOB is a responsible movement and family. Our aims and objectives are to bring peace and freedom to our people, not to further inflict pain upon the suffering Nigeria has already imposed on us.

“Those who came from the back door are nothing but thieves. Thieves come to rob, kill, and destroy. The agent provocateurs are on the same mission as the Nigerian government and her security agents, aiming to keep Alaigbo under security and economic siege while disguising themselves as fighters for the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU.”