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There have been deadly attacks lately in South-east Nigeria by gunmen said to be enforcing a controversial sit-at-home order.<\/p>\n
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed\u00a0Indigenous People of Biafra<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(IPOB), has sued Simon Ekpa, a controversial Biafra agitator, over the declaration of sit-at-home in Nigeria\u2019s South-east.<\/p>\n Mr Ejiofor disclosed this in a\u00a0Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Mr Ekpa, the leader of a pro-Biafra group, Autopilot IPOB, a faction of the IPOB, has been declaring sit-at-home orders since Mr Kanu was\u00a0\u201cintercepted\u201d in Kenya in June<\/a>,\u00a0last year, by Nigerian security agents and brought back to Abuja.<\/p>\n On 7 December, Mr Ekpa also declared a five-day sit-at-home across Nigeria\u2019s south-east to be observed from 9 to 14 December.<\/p>\n Tuesday, 13 December, was excluded.<\/p>\n Mr Ekpa, who made the declaration via his verified\u00a0Twitter handle<\/a>, claimed that the sit-at-home order was in response to some \u201cproactive measures\u201d being put in place by unnamed Biafra agitators to address the rising insecurity in the region, which according to him, was caused by the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n He warned residents of the region to stay indoors throughout the five days or have themselves to blame if they disobey the order.<\/p>\n Several Igbo leaders condemned the declaration and urged residents of the region to disregard it.<\/p>\n Mr Kanu, the IPOB leader, repeatedly\u00a0disowned<\/a>\u00a0the declaration and asked residents of the region to ignore it.<\/p>\n Some residents have been attacked for stepping out of their homes during the ongoing five-day sit-at-home order by gunmen enforcing the order.<\/p>\n On Friday, gunmen attacked Imo communities,\u00a0killing<\/a>\u00a0a police officer and Prince Iheme, an elder brother to Nollywood actor,\u00a0Osita Iheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n Again, on Saturday, some hoodlums attacked different locations in Enugu State,\u00a0killing<\/a>\u00a0two persons in a local market in the state and razing a police vehicle.<\/p>\n Mr Ejiofor, the IPOB lead counsel, said the legal action against Mr Ekpa was in response to his \u201cdisturbing and false\u201d declarations in the region.<\/p>\n \u201cToday (Tuesday), we formally commenced a legal action before the FCT High Court against Simon Ekpa, which action is founded on a plethora of grave infractions arising from his violent, disturbing and false declarations,\u201d he said, without giving details.<\/p>\n Mr Ejiofor said his decision not to release further details of the litigation was in order not to \u201cprejudice the robust legal actions already lined up for him (Ekpa) and his cohorts\u201d.<\/p>\n Mr Ekpa is a Nigerian-Finnish citizen.<\/p>\n He hails from Ngbo, a community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of\u00a0Ebonyi State<\/a>, South-east Nigeria. But he stays in Finland, a North European country.<\/p>\n He and four others are the defendants in the suit, according to a writ of summon dated 13 December posted on Facebook by Mr Ejiofor.<\/p>\n The four others are Juliet Anibueze, Obinna Victor Uzoaganaobi, Livingstone Chukwuemeka and Raphael Chiamaka Ajaere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been deadly attacks lately in South-east Nigeria by gunmen said to be enforcing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",1980,1090,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu-300x165.jpg",300,165,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu-768x423.jpg",640,353,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu-1024x564.jpg",640,353,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu-1536x846.jpg",1536,846,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",1980,1090,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",1024,564,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",690,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",300,165,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ekpa-And-Kanu.jpg",50,28,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38675,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38673\/revisions\/38675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}