A separatist group called for a sit-at-home protest in southeastern Nigerian cities, paralyzing business to pressurize the government to release its leader.

Banks, shops and markets were shut Monday in the Indigenous People of Biafra’s stronghold for the first of a series of planned protests in the southeast, Lagos-based Channels Television reported. IPOB, which wants to establish an independent state for the Igbo ethnic group, has called for everybody in the region’s commercial centers to stay home every Monday until Nnamdi Kanu is freed by the authorities.

Kanu, who fled Nigeria in 2017, was forcefully returned to the country in June to face treason charges. President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, which has outlawed IPOB and declared it a terrorist group, blamed the organization for attacks targeting the police this year. IPOB maintains its movement to create a breakaway nation is non-violent.

Kanu’s followers aspire to carve out a territory that would stretch beyond the southeast, encompassing the country’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, even though they have only marginal support there. That goal would make their project more viable, and directly threaten the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy.

Information Minister Lai Mohammed declined to comment on Monday’s protests when reached by phone.

The social unrest is adding to Nigeria’s security challenges, which include a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast and an uptick of kidnappings for ransom. Critics have accused Buhari, a former military ruler, of cracking down too hard on southeastern secessionists, while allowing northern groups to perpetuate violence. Buhari won the 2015 election on a promise to tackle rising insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-09/nigeria-separatists-shut-down-southeast-over-leader-s-arrest

I see,very good indeed.

Noted

Indeed

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International communities taking silent records of the happenings in south eastern Nigeria.

You See ?

While common nairaland is stabbiing itself by trying to hide the truth that fulani are pampering their killer children while being tough on my people for resisting them

Lies have never overcome the truth.

Lok

The world is talking

Shit is going global.

Well, shit has been global.

Bloomberg...not

Penguin2:
Shit is going global.

Well, shit has been global.

Shit just got real!

@ op, tell us what you know about ESN activities..

You seem to know better about their operation

More global attention to secessionists

What do I add again

Where is the PEACE and UNITY ?

LokoH:
You See ?

While common nairaland is stabbiing itself by trying to hide the truth that fulani are pampering their killer children while being tough on my people for resisting them

Why not pretend like a killer herdsman or kidnapper to enjoy the pampering.....useless narrative that is stale already.....oh i forgot the airforce is using fighter jets to play video games in zamfara forest....
Doble mouthed mofo