Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, on Saturday condemned the violence and horror that has tainted the five-day sit-at-home order by diaspora-based Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.
Newsbreak.ng reports that a faction of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Ekpa had through a video that circulated online last Tuesday, ordered the people of the South-East region of Nigeria to observe a sit-at-home from December 9-14, 2022.
Terror followed the order as criminals enforcing the directive murdered several people in Imo and Enugu states on Friday and Saturday.
A police officer was, on Friday afternoon, killed when gunmen invaded Orji, a community in Mbaitoli Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State.
Prince Iheme, an elder brother to Nollywood actor Osita Iheme, was also killed during a separate attack in Ubomiri, another community in the council area of the state.
The gunmen also attacked, with a machete, the Commissioner for Solid Minerals in the state, Martin Eke.
The hoodlums were said to have operated in Tundra Trucks and shot sporadically, forcing people to scamper for safety.
It’s sad that petroleum marketers habitually target Yuletide season in order to make ungodly profits by making life hard for motorists and unbearable for the general public.The directives of the Dss to the marketers is in order.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) December 10, 2022
“A Sit at home is a peaceful and legitimate means of dissent or civil protest; but once it’s enforced by force, violence or threats, and complied with out of fear, it has become another form of terror and tyranny,” Sani wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
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