Addressing newsmen on arrival at the General Post Office along the Old Market Road, Onitsha, at noon, the leader of the group, Igbani, said the need to create awareness had become expedient in view of the ‘I don’t care’ attitude of the people, warning that whoever that flouts the order would be seen as not being a true son of the Igbo race.

He urged those wedding on the said date to postpone such as  traders, civil servants and institutions are to honour fallen Igbo heroes and those massacred in the northern parts of the country by the Boko Haram sect.

His words, ”we are here today to spread the news that on June 8, 2013 all should be at home in memory of those six Igbo traders killed by the police at Apo village Abuja.”

“Also those killed by Boko Haram and those killed and dumped at Ezu river, Amansea, are being remembered, the sit-at–home is not to honour Uwazuruike but for those Igbo killed in various circumstances”.

“Even myself was arrested and tortured by soldiers while nursing my injury at a medical home. But this is to show you that Ndigbo have been marginalized and classified as second citizen in a country in which they are part and parcel of”.