The Indigenous People of Biafra has ordered a sit-at-home in all parts of the South East region on Tuesday, September 14 to mark the day the Nigerian military killed scores of its members in 2018.
A statement by IPOB’s head of the directorate service, Mazi Chika Edoziem, said the order to sit at home is a memorial of the massacre carried out by the military men three years ago in the region, especially in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
The statement reads: “We recall very vividly the carnage of September 12, 2018, by the Nigerian Army which through its ‘Operation Python Dance II’ without any provocation and without any reason whatsoever invaded and occupied Biafraland humiliating, maiming and massacring our people.
“It is still fresh in our minds when on the 14th of September, these murderers and terrorists in army uniform went further to desecrate the traditional stool of the Afaraukwu Kingdom in Umuahia shooting and killing everything in sight resulting in the cold-blooded murder of more than 38 Biafran youths and arrest of an unspecified number of Biafran men and women.
“Recall that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide has since 2018 set aside September 14 of every year as a day of civil disobedience in the whole of Biafraland.
“In accordance with the well-established custom, September 14, 2021, is declared a sit-at-home in Biafraland.”
