Residents of Nigeria’s southeastern region and others who have businesses to transact there should go about their activities in the area, as the Monday sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra has ended, the as over, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said.

 

Ohanaeze made the appeal in a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesman, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, in which it urged transporters and traders in the region to go about their businesses without fear.

 

The pan-Igbo cultural organization also asked school to restart their academic work, commence their usual academic activities.

 

Writing on the title ‘No more sit at home’, Ohanaeze declared that the leadership of IPOB had cancelled the weekly Monday sit-at-home order which had been in place for some months.

 

“The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ambassador George Obiozor, uses this opportunity to appreciate the understanding and maturity exhibited by the IPOB during the Anambra State governorship election and the cancellation of the Monday sit-at-home,” it said.

 

“They have indeed scored two major points: First, the Igbo detractors and doomsayers were disappointed that the election was a resounding success. Second is that the IPOB can listen to the appeal by the elders.

 

 “It is very heartwarming that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, traditional rulers, archbishops, governors, eminent persons, women groups, the political class, the academia, etc in Igbo land are united in the Release-Nnamdi-Kanu-Project.

 

 “This has proved to the sceptics that the Igbo unity is incontrovertible and that they can also be mobilised within a very short time.”

 

The call comes three days after some prominent Igbo leaders met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and pleaded for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of IPBO, which is campaigning for independence for the southeastern region.