IPOB’s sit-at-home order: Get cutlasses, defend yourselves or forfeit your shops – Governor Umahi tells traders

Governor David Umahi has requested residents of Ebonyi state to disregard the sit-at-home order of the proscribed Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB) and defend themselves if attacked.

Seccessionist group, IPOB had declared a sit-at-home within the south-east area from Could 29 to 31.

Umahi who warned that merchants who adjust to the sit-at-home order on Monday Could 31 will forfeit their retailers, charged those that haven’t any weapon to get cutlasses for self-defence.

The Governor Umahi in a state-wide broadcast on Saturday Could 29 to mark the sixth anniversary of his administration, additionally directed that each one markets, retailers, and places of work ought to open for enterprise on Monday.

The assertion learn;

“There needs to be free motion of individuals within the state on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and different days of the yr.

“Folks ought to go to church on Sunday to hope for the nation’s fallen safety brokers, civilians and peace and unity of the state and nation.

“I problem the youths, native authorities space chairman, safety brokers, Ebebeagu safety outfit, amongst others, to make sure that nobody is molested within the state.

“Anybody who has nothing to guard himself ought to accomplish that with cutlass, which needs to be for defense and never for assault.”

All types of procession had been banned within the state besides these by youths organised by council chairmen.

The assertion added;

“I’ve been notified about such processions and they’re getting used to profile our individuals for empowerment.

“I charge the Ebubeagu safety outfit, which is backed by the state legal guidelines, to make sure that the individuals are protected.

“There will probably be motion in other elements of the nation, if there may be none within the South-East so individuals ought to due to this fact ignore such order.

“Ebonyi individuals are grateful to President Muhammadu Buhari for all his help and if individuals don’t see his goodness, he has been good to us,”

Insisting that the state is not going to go into “second slavery beneath any guise”, Umahi additionally urged mother and father and related stakeholders to advise youths to toe the trail of peaceable co-existence and never depend upon the illusionary influences of exhausting medicine and fetish powers.