The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has finally amended its weekly Monday sit-at-home in the Southeast. The exercise would now be observed any day its detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is scheduled to appear in court to face trial.
IPOB had earlier announced that every Monday, the entire Southeast and some parts of Southsouth would be on a lockdown, as part of measures to force the Federal Government to release Kanu unconditionally.
Recall that Kanu has been in the State Security Service’s (DSS) custody since he was arrested in Kenya and extradited to Nigeria in June, this year. The earlier statement was that civil disobedience would not stop until Kanu was released.
However, while appearing on a radio programme on Friday, the group’s Head of the Directorate of State (DOS), Chika Edoziem, announced the amendment and suspension of the action.
