Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to address the media to put an end to the confusion surrounding the sit-at-home order in the South East region.
This followed series of skirmishes and targeted violence and attacks masterminded by some armed supporters of the Finland-based Simon Ekpa.
The group in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, called on Buhari to allow Kanu address the media affirming and confirming the suspension of the sit-at-home order.
People living and doing business in the South East region have been under siege in recent months as they cannot go about their legitimate businesses.
The IPOB’s leadership has, on many occasions, distanced itself from any sit-at-home, urging Nigerians living in the zone to go about their normal businesses but has not stopped the killing of people in the South East in the name of sit-at-home.
There have been stories of killings and maiming of innocent Nigerians who alter the sit-at-home order as the South East is shut down every Monday and on other occasions.
