The President of Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has distanced himself and the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the killing of soldiers in some parts of the South-East.
He described the incident as saddening, stating that Kanu was not behind the order for the sit-at-home.
Iwuanyanwu appealed to President Bola Tinubu to use his political power to free Kanu.
He was speaking shortly after he visited the detained leader in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday. He also called for the restructuring of the country.
Last week, IPOB declared May 30 as a sit-at-home in the south-east to honour the people they described as their heroes and heroines” who died in the civil war between 1967 and 1970.
The “Biafran Heroes Day” sit-at-home declared by the outlawed group paralysed commercial and economic activities in parts of Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi States as banks, schools, markets, motor parks, and fuel stations and other public places were shut on Thursday.
Nigerian officials often blame attacks in the southeast on the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra movement (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network.
