By Udesinanna Stephen
The former Senator from Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has whipped the perpetrators of the sit-at-home order in the southeast.
The Senator, who stated this today on his Twitter account @ShehuSani, noted that the struggle is wrong and becomes an illegitimate protest if citizens are compelled to keep it.
According to him, sit-at-home was a strategy used during the military era to campaign for democracy, and citizens freely complied with the exercise.
In his words, “Sit-at-home is a legitimate and non-violent means of public protest. We adopted that strategy during the years of our struggle against military dictatorship, under our group called the Campaign for Democracy. The masses complied in solidarity. Even when some of us were arrested and jailed, there was compliance.
“If you have to use force or violence for people to comply, as it is now done in the South East, there is something wrong with your cause or struggle.”
Since the arrest of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Southeast has been on lockdown every Monday as part of a protest for the clamour of Kanu’s release.
