The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has ordered troops to seize control of areas where the Indigenous People of Biafra enforce their sit-at-home order throughout the South-East states.

The order came after a Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, announced that there would be a two-week sit-at-home in the South-East region from July 31.

According to him, the order was to demand the immediate and unconditional release of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as well as facilitate the freedom of Biafra nation, among others.

Ekpa warned that failure to comply with the sit-at-home order would attract ‘heavy consequences’.

However, speaking in an interview with The PUNCH, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, declared that such an announcement was unlawful and would not be condoned.

He said the troops of the 82 Division had been given an order to work with other security agencies to ensure citizens go about their businesses freely.

Onyema said, “The renewed threat by IPOB to compel the people in southeastern Nigeria to sit at home is not only appalling but a violation of the fundamental rights of southeastern Nigerians and, therefore, unlawful. This will never be condoned.

“The Chief of Army Staff has handed down clear directives to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army operating in synergy with other security agencies to ensure robust patrols to dominate all flashpoints and emplace measures to ensure citizens are free to go about their legitimate businesses.

“Strangely, Simon Ekpa, a notorious terrorist and self-acclaimed leader of IPOB, is in Finland making a living for himself and his family, but ordering the people to shut down their means of livelihood by sitting at home.”

The army spokesman called on Nigerians in the South-East region to disregard the sit-at-home order, urging them to support the security forces to defeat IPOB.

Onyema said, “We implore the good and enterprising people of the South-East to shun all forms of cajoling or threats aimed at unlawfully compelling them to be reclusive by sitting at home. We urge them to join forces with the security operatives to resist this illegality perpetrated by IPOB.”

Similarly,the police have vowed to resist the sit-at-home order in any part of the South-East.

The Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, told The PUNCH that the police had killed and arrested non-state actors enforcing the order, adding that the force would not rest on its oars.

[b]He said, “The police will not allow any unlawful order to stand in any part of Nigeria. The sit-at-home order is illegal and unacceptable. We have suppressed and neutralised the non-state actors who have been trying to enforce the order. We have arrested many of them and recovered their weapons.

“We will not relent in our efforts to maintain law and order in all parts of Nigeria, and we assure the people in the South-East to go about their lawful businesses as we have emplaced adequate security measures to protect them. We are keeping watch on the sponsors of these [/b]agitators who cause pain and sorrow in the areas.

For a long long time, Obi played See no evil, hear no Evil while ipob enslave and slaughter his people, while they burn homes and businesses, while they destroy the SE economy, but the moment the military/FG ordered military response and attacks on ipob terrorists, Peter Obi rose from his long hibernation and self-induced silence to defend and become ipob spokesman, to numb and paint ipob terrorists as the victims and not the bloodthirsty and barbaric animals that they really are.


Just imagine a presidential candidate defending, supporting and carrying water bottle for ipob terrorists that his own country and FG banned, just imagine, it's either this man is tone-deaf or just a card-carrying member of this barbaric terrorist group which I really think he is.

Before, ipob terrorist people are his friends, his neighbors whom he eats and drank with.

The fact that this man goes out of his way to openly defend a proscribed terrorist group shows that this man has no respect for Nigeria, Nigerian laws, and the Nigerian constitution.

Obi is not only ipob spokesman, he is ipob from top to bottom.

The military must not pay attention to this terrorist spokesman's charade, they must wipe out these terrorist clowns and obi himself if he stands in the way.

Gbam.

Lagbaja is not playing with terrorists
First he told the political bandits in Zamfara that there's no more amnesty for bandits

Then he ordered troops to dominate IPOB hideouts. There will be more outbursts in the days to come..... FYI lagbaja once headed 82 div. So he fairly know the eastern terrain

Abeg allow me to here

Interesting.

We are watching

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Peter girigory Obi knows a lot about IPOB miscreants and ESN gunmen, he might be a major financier of the terrorist group because he doesn't mince words in defending those criminals, they even attacked Soludo's hometown for him for speaking against Peter Obi's investment, something is definitely attached them to each other

Rubbish idiotic nonsensesical post
You people will not go and look for people causing mayhem in the south east which are known to the government.......

plaindealer:






For a long long time, Obi played See no evil, hear no Evil while ipob enslave and slaughter his people, while they burn homes and businesses, while they destroy the SE economy, but the moment the military/FG ordered military response and attacks on ipob terrorists, Peter Obi rose from his long hibernation and self-induced silence to defend and become ipob spokesman, to numb and paint ipob terrorists as the victims and not the bloodthirsty and barbaric animals that they really are.


Just imagine a presidential candidate defending, supporting and carrying water bottle for ipob terrorists that his own country and FG banned, just imagine, it's either this man is tone-deaf or just a card-carrying member of this barbaric terrorist group which I really think he is.

Before, ipob terrorist people are his friends, his neighbors whom he eats and drank with.

The fact that this man goes out of his way to openly defend a proscribed terrorist group shows that this man has no respect for Nigeria, Nigerian laws, and the Nigerian constitution.

Obi is not only ipob spokesman, he is ipob from top to bottom.

The military must not pay attention to this terrorist spokesman's charade, they must wipe out these terrorist clowns and obi himself if he stands in the way.

When you're done ranting like a deranged lunatic, better gather all the members of your wretched and poverty-stricken family and queue up for your #8K palliative money from druggie. At least that will feed you for the rest of the month.

Even my dog knows that Peter Obi is an ipob shill whom he refer to as his "brothers".

Kalakulu:


When you're done ranting like a deranged lunatic, better gather all the members of your wretched and poverty-stricken family and queue up for your #8K palliative money from druggie. At least that will feed you for the rest of the month.

Your terrorist brothers and sisters made you sit at home slaves, they are slaughtering you left and right like stray goats, they are flogging your school children like nuisance babies, but your own idiotic and miserable concern is palliatives,.

When they say the SE is hopeless and the people are pamanently deranged, they are not lying,