By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Suspected members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) have attacked a school in Imo State to enforce IPOB’s sit-at-home order which holds every Monday, even though the mainstream executive of the organization have canceled it.
IPOB had initially declared the sit-at-home in solidarity with its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is being tried for treason. It was later cancelled because of its economic impact on the lives of South Easterners who are mainly business people. But fringe members of the organization have continued to enforce the sit-at-home.
According to a report by Daily Trust, the gunmen invaded the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State and stopped students from taking their examination.
The report says the students were preparing to take the Test of English Language in the ongoing Junior Secondary School Examination before the armed men forcibly dispersed them. Teachers and students were said to have scampered in different directions as the gunmen shot sporadically into the air.
The invaders also set ablaze properties belonging to staff and students of the school, including motorcycle and bicycles.
Another sit-at-home is slated for tomorrow, September 14, to honour members of the group killed between September 13 and 14, 2017 by soldiers.