Terror reigns supreme in Nigeria’s South East region following the declaration of a one-week sit-at-home order by members of the dreaded Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
On Wednesday, July 5, the members stormed the streets in Enugu State to attack people who had defiled the sit-at-home order given by Simon Ekpa, the Biafra agitator.
Media had reported that the outlawed Ekpa, the acclaimed leader of the Biafra Republic Government, declared a one-week sit-at-home protest in the South-East from Monday, July 3 to July 8, 2023.
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In a trending video, the IPOB and ESN members apprehended some pupils and teachers who were teaching and receiving classes in a community Primary School located in Enugu West.
In another trending video, the IPOB members brandishing guns and wearing red satin covering their heads with black headtie killed a motor cyclist and shot occupants of Sienna jeep and vandalised the car.
Recall that the sit-at-home started after the arrest and detention of the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Kanu is currently in the detention of the DSS since his arrest many months ago. Some Igbo leaders have been calling on the federal Government to release the IPOB Leader for peace to reign in the region.
A trending video of the attack seen by Straightnews on Thursday morning, showed the school children and their teachers lying down and being questioned on why they disobeyed the sit-at-home directive.
Some gun-wielding hoodlums reportedly enforcing the purported one-week sit-at-home in Enugu State were seen attacking a yet-to-be-identified primary school, flogging pupils and their teachers for disobeying their order.
The terrified and traumatised pupils, who were flogged repeatedly were overheard telling the hoodlums that they came to school to take their First School Leaving Certificate examination, which is a statewide examination.
The children and their teachers who were seen wailing pleaded with the unidentified gang that they would never disobey sit-at-home directive again in their life.
One of the hoodlums was overheard saying “This is happening live in one of the primary schools in Enugu West senatorial district in the state.”
The outlawed group was overheard in the video asking the pupils “Why did you people come out today that you know is sit-at-home?
“I want everybody to obey the rules of Biafra. If they flog you today, you people will know that you don’t need to come out any day we have sit-at-home. You should not ever violate again the rules of government of Biafra.
“Any day they ask you to come out on the day of sit-at-home, tell them you won’t go to school because they have sit-at-home. That’s why we supposed to give you a little punishment.”
When asked what they had to say, one of the pupils, amid tears told them, “We will not come out again.”
Nnamani reacts to trending video
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has reacted to the trending video of school children, teachers and parents being flogged for disobeying the sit-At-Home order in the South East geopolitical zone of the country.
Reacting to the trending video, Senator Nnamani, on his verified Twitter page wrote, “The Decline and decline of Igbo civilization. Strange happenings in a strange land. How do we explain the Igbo flogging of school children, teachers and mothers? Offense? Igbo fulfilling the mythological trinity, Igbambo (Hustle)! Only a society that celebrates incompetence, half knowledge and ignorance. All shrouded in the darkest eclipse of tribalism and religious bigotry”
