Asari Dokubo Slams Simon Ekpa, Others Over Sit-at-home Order

A former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo has berated Simon Ekpa and others championing the sit-at-home exercise in the South East.

Naija News recalls that Ekpa had declared a sit-at-home order in the South East to demand the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

In a statement released last week, the Biafra agitator said the lockdown would take place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of May 2022, adding that the exercise will be a historic lockdown of the region.

Speaking on a Facebook Live on Thursday, Dokubo said those promoting the sit-at-home order in the South East are enemies of the region and are all based abroad.

He added that Ekpa and his cohorts are going about their work wherever they are based and asking the residents based in the South-East not to leave their houses.

He said: “We stop our people from going to the market, under the pretence of asking them to stay at home. But the people supporting stay at home that are in South Africa, Finland, Germany, Austria, Ghana, Benin Republic, go to work. They are not staying at home. They are doing their businesses; they are going about their work.”

The former militant leader also blamed IPOB and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), for the killing of a military couple in Imo state.

He added: “This lady is an Igbo woman. She was killed. We keep on living in denial because we are afraid of confronting these people. We see them celebrate everyday – the activities of the so-called unknown soldiers. These people are no other people than Nnamdi Kanu’s men who have been let loose to turn Ndigbo, Alaigbo into a desert. It’s so sad.“