Governors of the South-East region rose from a meeting on Tuesday with a condemnation of the sit-at-home order being issued by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra every Monday.
The meeting, also attended by selected traditional rulers noted that the order was having a crippling effect on the socio-economic activities in the region.
Their position was disclosed in a resolution they issued at the end of the meeting.
“The South-East condemned the killings in the region and have agreed to join hands with security agencies to stop the killings,” the chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, who read the resolutions of the leaders, said.
“The meeting condemned the sit-at-home orders, which are mostly issued by our people in the diaspora who do not feel the pains.
“In view of the information that even IPOB had cancelled the sit-at-home, the meeting resolved that governors and all people of the South East do everything within the law to ensure that there is no further sit-at-home in the South East and that people are allowed to freely move about in the zone.”
The governors said that the order can no longer be sustained, more so when those who issued the order were outside the country.
But the governors refused to have anything to do with the man at the centre of the battle, Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB, who is currently detained in a prison in Abuja.
IPOB members who have been enforcing the sit-at-home order have threatened to embark on a month-long shutdown in the region if Kanu is not produced in Court on October 21, the next adjourned date for his case in Abuja.
The Southeast has been turned into a war zone, with many people shot and killed by gun-wielding gangs kill and burn indiscriminately.
