Thread by @Ekwulu

By Okey Igbokwe
''In the eighties, Onitsha traders became frustrated and stood up against armed robbers and touts terrorizing and robbing the city. They formed a movement nicknamed Boys Oye to flush the criminals disturbing their businesses out.
In the nineties, Aba traders,

after they have had enough of the nuisance of the armed robbers and touts terrorizing the city, formed Bakassi Boys movement.
We all know what the results of those movements were. Criminals terrorizing the cities and markets were dealt with and flushed out.
There is a limit to

what a people can tolerate_to how much you can bully and frustrate them_with time, they will turn around to proclaim that enough is enough and push back.
Those who are imposing and enforcing the self-destructive sit-at-home orders across Igboland may soon feel the frustrations

and wrath of Igbo people. You can not continue to recklessly lock people in, prevent them from going out to hustle for their daily bread week in week out and expect them to continue smiling with you. If you are declaring a sit-at-home, you should provide palliative measures that

should help the people to cope with hunger and feeding their families while they stay at home for you. If you know you can not do this, let only your group and members who are protesting over any grievance observe the sit-at-home and allow others the freedom to move about.

I am beginning to sense that frustrated Igbo people who are being locked in and their businesses held up week in week out might re-enact the Boys Oye and Bakassi Boys movements to stop this nonsense.
IPOB does not own Igboland or Biafra. Not every Igbo person belong to IPOB,

too. Every Igbo man and woman are all victims of the wickedness of the Nigerian state and wants their freedom. But the way to stop this is not by inflicting stupid punishments on ourselves believing that it'd hurt your enemies. Many people are staying in doors for sit-at-home,

not because they enjoy observing or showing solidarity, but because they are afraid of getting lynched and killed. Time is coming, and it is looming dangerously when frustrated Igbo people whom businesses are suffering will stand up to say that enough is enough. Let only IPOB

members be observing their sit-at-homes and allow others their peace and freedom. The use of force to observe the sit-at-homes have made many people to become disillusioned with IPOB and distance themselves.
Two sit-at-home enforcers were lynched at Onitsha today by the people

who are getting frustrated with their violent activities. This is just a sign of what might soon come. The people will stand up and say, "observe your sit-at-homes alone and leave us alone".
-Okey Igbokwe.