The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Worldwide has declared 30th May 2026 as a sit-at-home for remembrance, mourning, reflection, and honour for all Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price in the defence of their people, the dignity, and collective right to exist.
In a statement issued on Sunday by Comrade Emma Powerful, the spokesperson/media and publicity secretary for IPOB, he called for the strict and total observance of the annual 30 May sit-at-home across every town, village, and city in Biafraland in honour of all our fallen heroes and heroines.
He noted that the sacred day is not for politics, commerce, entertainment, weddings, burials, meetings, market activities, or social events but rather a solemn day of reflection, prayer, mourning, honour, and national remembrance.
IPOB urged all Biafrans at home and in the diaspora to observe this sacred covenant with discipline, dignity, and reverence worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us.
The body further encouraged every governor across the thirteen states of Biafraland to demonstrate moral courage and historical conscience by flying the Nigerian flag at half-mast on 30 May in honour of the millions who perished during the war and in the years that followed.
He noted that such a gesture would not diminish anyone; rather, it would acknowledge the humanity of the dead and affirm that their lives mattered.
He said, “No people can build a just future while pretending their dead never existed. This is not a political ritual. This is a sacred covenant with the fallen.”
According to him, as long as one Biafran still breathes anywhere on this earth, the story of those men and women must continue to be told, adding that their courage must continue to be honoured and their suffering must continue to be remembered.
He said, “So every 30 May is more than remembrance. It is a covenant. A solemn vow between the living and the dead that their sacrifice will never be erased by propaganda, fear, or time itself”.
Emma Powerful said that IPOB remembers the soldiers who fought barefoot with empty stomachs, the scientists who turned scraps into survival, the mothers who buried children and still found strength to carry on, the civilians starved under blockade and every fallen hero whose blood watered the survival of a people.
He said, “And we remember especially the heroes and martyrs massacred at Nkpor and Onitsha during the 30 May 2016 Remembrance observances — unarmed men and women whose only offence was gathering to honour their dead and affirm their identity. Their blood joined the long and painful river of sacrifice that runs through our history.
“We shall never abandon their memory, and we shall never allow their sacrifice to be erased from the conscience of our people.”
The group pointed out that history will forever record that a besieged people, abandoned by the world, resisted the combined machinery assembled against them and still refused to surrender their humanity.
He said: “Their memory is now our duty. Their sacrifice is now our inheritance. And their story will live for as long as a single Biafran remains upon the face of this earth.”
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