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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/26/corner-nigeria-enforcing-sit-at-home-strikes-deadly-effect/
For every Monday, those living across Nigeria’s south-east
are subjected to “sit-at-home strikes” during which they are
not allowed to leave their homes under the orders of banned
separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob). Banks
are shut, schools are closed, shopkeepers stay at home and
residents stay off the streets.
If they defy the orders, they will beaten or shot dead on
the street, with their cars set on fire – sometimes with
them still inside.
“They use Mondays to terrorise people in the name of fighting
for Biafra. They kill innocent people [and] burn motors that
refuse to sit at home,” Emeka, who declined to give his real
name for fear of reprisals, told The Telegraph. “Seriously,
things are not going well.”
Monday used to be the busiest day of the week for Emeka’s
chemist shop in the southern city of Aba. Now business grinds
to a halt. His shop and the stalls across Ariaria market –
one of the largest in West Africa – are deserted and the city
is left as a ghost town.
The Ipob, labelled a terrorist organisation by Nigerian
authorities, launched the weekly sit-at-home protest in
August 2021 across the five states of Nigeria’s south-east,
which is predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group.
. . .
Those of a certain age will remember the name "Biafra".
It was celebrated back in the hippie-dippy days almost
as much as 'Palestine' is now.
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