Ebonyi Governor David Umahi has declared there will be no sit-at-home on October 1 in the State as directed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
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The exercise, he argued, has hurt the southeast economically in a way that will take years to recover.
It has also led to many avoidable deaths and destructions, he stated.
Umahi, who spoke on Thursday, in Abakaliki described the killings as the declaration of war on the people of the region.
The Governor, in a special independence briefing, said: “Ebonyi people have been so much deprived in the past, turned to house boys and house girls because of this sit-at-home and we are in a hurry to catch up with others.
“So, we are not going to be sitting down at home. And so, anybody that says sit-at-home, Ebonyi people will not sit-at-home”.
Umahi called on the people of the region not to allow people outside the country to deceive them into sitting at home.
“I am calling on the entire south east to understand this sit-at-home and those who are orchestrating this sit-at-home are our brothers outside this country who are paid per hour and so, they find it very difficult to feel very comfortable for them to be at work and ask us to sit-at-home.
“They are working to be paid to have means of livelihood the same way they are working to be paid to have means of livelihood. If they truly mean it and they want to ask us to sit-at-home, all the south east people that outside this country should be sincere.
“Any day they want us to sit-at-home, let them also sit-at-home and see whether they will not be repatriated because they will have nothing to pay for their livelihood. So, it is all about deceit.
“Those who are being killed here in confrontation with security agencies, they are our children, they are our sons and daughters belonging to some of us who are at home.
“So, I want us to disregard this sit-at-home. Nobody all of the world is against peaceful agitations including agitations at home. We have agitations every day; husbands versus wives, children versus father, even house boys/house girls versus the mother of the house.
“So, there are always agitations. So, agitation is natural, its fundamental but there is nobody who carries gun and wants to kill another person in the name of anything is justifiable.
“We condemn in totality the insecurity in south east orchestrated by our own people tagged unknown gunmen and I appeal on behalf of the governors that this should come to a stop.
“We are very mobile people, restricting our people is to destroy us and I am sure that every man and woman in south east knows that.
“So, this is my own opinion about the sit-at-home. All Flags must be flying very high tomorrow, in fact, it should fly higher tomorrow and we believe in one, equitable fair Nigeria and we will fare better in united Nigeria where there is justice, equity and love”, he said.
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