The Federal Government spoke yesterday
of an international dimension to the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) crisis.
It accused the United Kingdom of doing
very little about its complaint that
Biafra Radio was broadcasting from its
territory. Besides, said the government,
the bulk of IPOB’s funding from its
diaspora supporters is sent through
France.

Information Minister Lai Mohammed, who
stated this yesterday after the Federal
Executive Council (FEC) meeting, added
that IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu’s
belligerent attitude and the violence the
group employed could not be overlooked
by any government. The minister said:
“Let me tell you, the financial
headquarters is in France, we know, but
you see, can you as a government stop
sending money to your parents? You
have to block the sources of finance
that is what I said recently. “It is
incontrovertible that some people in the
diaspora contribute money to IPOB. We
know this as a fact. Again, there are a
few knotty diplomatic issues which you
need to skip. For instance, who does not
know that the IPOB internal radio is
located in London? We know the
diplomatic moves we have been taking
and approaching the UK, all the damage
it has done; but they don’t see it that
way. For them, it is about freedom of
expression. “If we have a person in
Nigeria openly soliciting arms to come
and fight the UK, what would you think
of it. Would you consider that freedom of
expression? And this is a country that
also has had a history; what did the Irish
Republican Army (IRA) do to be labeled a
terrorist organization? They were
planting bombs, they were fighting the
British army. “I don’t want any
diplomatic row. We know for a fact where
the funding is coming from and we are
going to stop them but it is difficult to
stop them and we have been working on
it and we will not stop.” On those
financing IPOB, the minister said: “We
have the records; we know IPOB collects
money from many people from the
diaspora, they collect money from many
people in Nigeria. They collect money
from some foreign countries; this is clear.

”I think this is not rocket science. Any
treasury looter would do everything
possible to distract the government. If by
any act, God forbid it, Nigeria is today
engulfed in war, and Nigeria is now
involved in trying to quell unrest, will
the courts be spared? What would be the
first priority of government? It will be to
quell that riot, so it is a way of
distraction to ensure that government is
not focused. Mohammed added: “Let me
state clearly that it is within the rights
of individuals or groups to seek self-
determination. But this pursuit has to be
non- violent. Where any group crosses
the line by engaging in violence, it risks
being cut to size and that’s exactly
what has happened to IPOB.

I am not interested in the semantics or
legality of troops deployment or the
proscription of IPOB. All I know is that
IPOB has engaged in terrorist activities,
viz: Setting up parallel military and
paramilitary organizations, clashing with
the national army and attempting to
seize rifles from soldiers, using weapons,
such as machetes, molotov cocktails and
sticks and mounting roadblocks to extort
money from people, among others. “To
those who have engaged in semantics or
legality, I ask: which country in the world
will tolerate those activities I have listed
above? Which national army will look the
other way when it is being attacked by a
band of thugs? “For those who are
fixated with legality, I have good news
for them: President Muhammadu Buhari
has approved the process of proscribing
IPOB, and the procedure is on as I speak.

But I ask, if the President had been
overly concerned with legality, where
would Nigeria have been today? If
attacks in the South-east had attracted
reprisals elsewhere in the country, what
would have happened?

“But for the quick action of governors
in the South-east and the North, there
would have been a conflagration of
immense proportions.” Mohammed praised
the South-east governors


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lalasticlala

Believe it or leave it, Biafra restoration is going break apart diplomatic relations between many nations of the world. Biafra agitation is already a scare in the conscience of humanity.

A big thanks to FG for internationalising this struggle the way they FG made Nnamdi Kanu a Hero

You don't expect the British to act barbaric like you on their own citizens.