The Simon Ekpa-led Biafra Republic Government In-Exile has threatened that it would shut down Nigerian government offices in Biafraland over the alleged continued ill-treatment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Ekpa spoke amid claims by Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, that the IPOB leader was ill with shortness of breath, low blood pressure and general malaise.
Ejimako also alleged that the Department of State Services, DSS, refused doctors from having access to Kanu despite his ill-health.
Reacting, Ekpa, known as the Prime Minister of BRGIE, in a statement Tuesday through his official X handle, claimed that it seemed that the Nigerian government had a sinister agenda in its detention of Kanu since June 2021.
He wrote, “Following this development, it is very clear that the Nigerian state does not want Mazi Nnamdi Kanu alive. And for this reason, the Biafra government is taking decisive measures to sanction Nigeria’s state.
“In protest of this devastating development, the Biafra Government will shut down all Nigerian government secretariats in Biafraland, government houses, LG government secretariats, and all Nigerian government institutions.
“If you know you are serving the Nigeria government as a civil servant in Biafraland, your premises will be shut on the following dates: 29.7.2024 total shutdown of your offices in Biafraland, 30.7.2024 total shutdown all Nigerian government secretariats in Biafraland, government houses, LG government secretariats, and all Nigerian government institutions.
“If you know you are serving the Nigeria government as a civil servant in Biafraland, your premises will be shut on the following dates: 29.7.2024 total shutdown of your offices in Biafraland, 30.7.2024 total shutdown of your offices in Biafraland, 31.7.2024 total shutdown of your office in Biafraland and 2.8.2024 being Friday, the entire Biafraland will be under lock and key.”
Recall that in May, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court dismissed a fresh request by Nnamdi Kanu for bail.
It could also be recalled that the perennial Monday sit-at-home being observed in the South-East has been a source of concern.
Despite the IPOB coming out severally to say it has been cancelled, the Ekpa-led group has continued to enforce it in some parts of the region.