IPOB disowns Friday sit-at-home ordered by Simon Ekpa, says it’s a scam

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), an outlawed Igbo secessionist organisation, has urged its followers and residents of the South-East area to defy Simon Ekpa, a self-described Nnamdi Kanu disciple, who has set a sit-at-home order on Friday, July 22.

In order to protest the killing of seven Igbo youths in Imo State last Sunday, IPOB-Auto-Pilot, the leadership of which is the former Director-General of Radio Biafra, issued a sit-at-home order for Friday on Thursday.
However, the Biafran agitators stated that the decision should be ignored since Ekpa is a liar who seeks to defraud the public for his own gain in a reaction by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful.

Powerful added that Ekpa’s major preoccupation since he was disgraced out of the group was being used by the Nigerian government to destroy IPOB.

Powerful also insisted that Ekpa was not a member of IPOB, hence should be disregarded by those sympathetic to the Biafran cause.

“The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been drawn to the laughable, disgraceful and unguarded statements credited to certain “Refugees interpreter” based in Finland whose name is Simon Ekpa through whom Nigeria Government and enemies of Biafra had successfully launched so many tragedies and attacks against our land and people.

“We do, hereby, strongly reiterate once again that Simon Ekpa is not IPOB member, not IPOB or Biafra spokesman, not a family member of IPOB in any family unit in Finland and has never remitted a dime from his monthly fundraising to Eastern Security Network (ESN).

“Every activity of the Finland-based blogger and scammer, Simon Ekpa is to scam and deprive ignorant Biafrans who genuinely wanted to support the only genuine ESN under IPOB-DOS command of funds and logistics so that Igbo land would be invaded by Fulani invaders.

“We, therefore, advise Simon Ekpa and his miserable sponsors not to continue hiding under the name IPOB, ESN and commit all manner of crimes.

“IPOB did not order sit-at-home on Friday which is 22nd July, 2022. He is being used by the Nigerian government and enemies of Biafra to destroy IPOB and he will never succeed,” the statement reads.