BIAFRA: IPOB sit at home’ news update for May 30th, 2019

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), Nnamdi Kanu, has told Biafrans what to do in commemoration of the group’s remembrance day. Kanu via a live broadcast delivered today 6 am Nigerian time in Atlanta Georgia, the United States, where he would be observing the “Biafra Remembrance Day” said it is a day of serious thinking.

 It could be recalled that IPOB had declared May 30 as sit-at-home day throughout the Southeast referred to as “Biafraland” by pro-Biafra activists and Nigeria in remembrance of its fallen heroes and heroines. “Today is a day of serious thinking and reasoning on the part of our people and the day the entire Biafraland is locked down, markets are not opened, no schools, no offices are opened, no banks, nothing.

 Recall that following a clash between security agents and IPOB members. many died during the “Biafra Remembrance Day” which held on May 30, 2016. According to reports, at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the south-east of the country died in the clash allegedly led by the military in Onitsha, Anambra State. while some sustained various degrees of injuries and scores arrested in less than 48 hours to the event.