BIAFRA: SIT AT HOME, NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE -BISHOP NWOKOLO
By Felix Oti, Awka
The Bishop on the Niger, Anglican Communion, The Right Reverend Dr Owen Nwokolo, yesterday said that the weekly Sit at home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will be no more acceptable.
According to Bishop Nwokolo who made this statement during his 2021 End-of-year Luncheon with the media said that the ‘sitting at home is not helping our educational system, economy and also not helping our future’.
Bishop Nwokolo urged the commercial banks and market leaders to as a matter of policy to open for businesses on Mondays. He urged as well government and security agencies to provide an atmosphere that is friendly for businesses.
He said “Nnamdi is someone we all Cherish, who has been speaking on the welfare of our people in the land.
‘As they progress when Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) themselves said that they are no longer enforcing anyone to sit at home every Monday. Sitting at home every day or Monday does not do any good to our society.
‘Our children who suppose to go to school are no longer going and scheme of work that supposed to be covered for them to take some examinations with other students in West African countries are not covered.
‘Nobody will ask you if you are sitting at home or not. Even business-wise / traders especially low-income earners are suffering.
‘Nobody is claiming responsibility for making people, not to come out on Mondays. Indigenous People of Biafra said It’s not them, Government said is not them. Who is enforcing this sit at home? It is no longer acceptable.
‘We ask every market leader to open the market, commercial banks, open the banks. There is indeed fear that the unknown people may attack people who may come out and on this note, we call on the Federal Government, State government, security agencies not to harras or intimidate innocent people but create an atmosphere where people will feel comfortable to come out and do their normal businesses, go to school, shops and be assured that they are safe.
‘But for us, this sit at home is not helping our educational system, economy and also not helping our future. We need to all work together to put it to stop’, Bishop Nwokolo concluded.
