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Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:16am On May 16, 2022 |
Full text of BBC documentary about Ipob. Introduction The video begins with Nneka Igwenagu saying, "The Fulani soldiers, they are about to start killing Igbo saboteurs" while the word "Disinformation" flashes on the screen. Efe Uwanogho (aka Omote Biafra) says, "These mighty mighty saboteurs should be get rid off". One of the Ipob media warriors says, "The Eastern governors have sold you". Uche Mefor says, "It is not even fighting against the enemy. It is now fighting and killing our own people". Nicholas "The Brave" Ibekwe says, "But one thing they have been successful with is their disinformation campaign". The narrator says The BBC's disinformation unit has uncovered a network of Nigerians based outside the country who are deliberately spreading false information and violent rhetoric on social platforms, in an apparently coordinated effort to stoke ethnic tension and encourage the breakup of the country. We see Efe Uwanogho (aka Omote Biafra) and she is shouting, "Let's go after the saboteurs in our midst". This is Efe Uwanogho, also known as Omote Biafra. She's a Nigerian based in Italy with 40,000 followers on Facebook. She's part of a group called the Indigenous People of Biafra, known as Ipob. We can see and hear Omote Biafra shouting into the camera, "Go after all these mighty mighty saboteurs. Leave all these saboteur ITK saboteurs, go with the mighty mighty saboteurs. Go after those ones. Those are the people that need to be beheaded. Those are the people that need to be burnt to ashes. Those are the people that their houses need to be invaded"! Like Efe, Nneka Igwenagu also aggressively stokes existing ethnic tension from outside Nigeria. We see Nneka Igwenagu in a video saying, "Immigration, both. . . " In this Facebook broadcast from London, she alleges a plot by the Fulani people and other Northerners resident in the South East to exterminate ethnic Igbos. We can hear Nneka Igwenagu saying, "All of them they are into mission in our land, Biafra Land, eastern part of Nigeria. They have come in the name of to shine shoe, to do this, to do all sorts of odd jobs, but now they are into kidnapping. They said that it's fetching them more money. They are on mission to exterminate, kill, maim, wipe all of us". Although there have been violent clashes between Fulani herders and communities in the South East, there is no evidence for the sort of conspiracy that Mrs Igwenagu is alleging. They showed clips from the Civil War, then they switched to clips of Ipob fighters marching. For many the struggle continued. The idea of Biafra never went away. They show a clip of Nnamdi Kanu in a studio. He is saying, "Nobody born from man or woman. . ." In 2013 the recently formed Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), led by Nnamdi Kanu, began broadcasts on Radio Biafra, calling again for a movement to gain independence from Nigeria. Campaigning on social media soon followed. Uche Mefor says, "I was the brain behind the media aspect, especially the Internet technology. I set up this Radio Biafra you're talking about today. I set up the Internet version and the satellite platform that you are talking about today. So it was at that period that we reasoned that the online platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter can give us leverage against the atrocities being committed against our people. And it actually has". Ipob says that its members have been victims of extra-judicial killings by security forces. We see various Ipob members making broadcasts. Then the video switches to Uche Mefor and he says, "There were misinformation, but it was minimal at the time that I was there and I didn't keep quiet about it. In Nigeria Internet penetration is high and data is relatively cheap, providing a ready audience for those wanting to spread disinformation. We see a clip of Mrs Igwenagu. She is on a street in London as she makes her broadcast. She says (in Igbo), "Ogidi youths, all of you that were involved in the protest, you are like a chicken that laid eggs, but after laying the eggs, breaks them open and proceeds to eat them. This is what you did. All of you are not supposed to be alive". This is her broadcast from London in late 2021. Her target are a youth group in Ogidi, a town in Anambra State. They had organised a march to protest Ipob's order that people shut down businesses and schools every Monday in solidarity with imprisoned Ipob leader, Nnamdi Kanu. We can see Simon Ekpa making a broadcast. He is saying, ". . .are not known to be coward. Ogidi. . ." Here is Finland based lawyer, Simon Ekpa, who has thousands of followers. Simon Ekpa says, "Who ever. . .the president of the youths of Ogidi, who ever he is, where ever that he is coming from and who ever is paying him to bring pump action and start walking on the street, they should retract immediately. He should retract his steps and don't go further with this. This is not a threat, but it is a fact". They show the obituary poster of the president of the Ogidi youths association. A few weeks after these comments, the youth leader of Ogidi was shot and killed. Those responsible remain unidentified. Continued below 10 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:16am On May 16, 2022 |
Supporters of Ipob and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, have long been active on social media, sharing Mr Kanu's broadcasts and commenting on posts that relate to the group or events in Nigeria. We hear one of Nnamdi Kanu's broadcasts. He says, "Ufuoma Biafra, you must listen to her. Of course you must go and listen to Simon Ekpa, who is doing a very fantastic job. Very great job Simon Ekpa". But a broadcast in May 2020, when Mr Kanu endorsed specific people that his followers should listen to, brought these so-called 'media warriors' into the limelight. Nicholas Ibekwe says, "There is no doubt in my mind that Ipob has an organised troll farm. Perhaps one of their strongest weapons. It is not about their army. I mean the whole armed struggle has been basically unsuccessful. One thing that they have been successful with is their disinformation campaign. In fact, they started off with disinformation. Those radio programmes Nnamdi Kanu was doing then were steeped in disinformation. Uche Mefor says, "This misinformation came from the top. Other people started learning from Nnamdi, as an apprentice you look up to your master". One particular target of Ipob's disinformation effort is the Fulani, one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Many Fulani, who are predominantly Muslim, still follow the nomadic cattle herding culture of their ancestors, which brings them into regular conflict with farming communities in several West African countries. Nicholas Ibekwe says, "Ipob has this thing with cattle, because they believe that the Hausa-Fulani are going to farm. . .all sorts of propaganda. There might be truth in some of these allegations of herdsmen destroying farms. There's no doubt that herdsmen were destroying farms and all of that, but they now came up with their story of, 'Oh they were also raping our women', there might be some truth in that, but Ipob took it several notches and made it like a rhetoric, and made it like an anthem. So any attack, even if it's not remotely connected to the Hausa-Fulani, they blame it on Hausa-Fulani". The leader of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a group fighting for the welfare of the Fulani in Nigeria, told the BBC that many allegations against the Fulani are being fabricated for political reasons and that they are unfairly being blamed for rapes and kidnappings in areas where they are not even present. We hear Nnamdi Kanu's broadcast and he says, "Kill them. If you see the Army and the Police in your village, kill all of them. Any vehicle you see from tonight, 12 midnight till 5, destroy it completely". This is from his Facebook Live broadcast on April 22, 2021. This sentiment continues to be echoed by his followers across social media. They call the security services and traditional rulers "saboteurs", or "sabos", a slur word revived from the days of the Civil War that when used then, as now, was often a death sentence. They show Sarah's relative (I think it's her mother) crying and scrolling through pictures on her phone. She says (in Igbo Language), "For a long time we have been suffering. Her father is deceased. She eventually got a job as a police officer by the grace of God. She does everything, looking for what she will eat. Then suddenly. . .Oh God! Since then her death has not left my mind". The Nigerian Government blames Ipob for the murder of hundreds of security officials, as well as civilians. Ipob denies involvement, insisting it is agitating for separation from Nigeria through peaceful means. We see Omote Biafra shouting, "Enough of it! Their media warriors though, continue their calls for violence. We hear George Onyeibe, a former Africa representative of Ipob and he says, "We have media warriors who, their first mode of operation should have been countering some fake reports and information about us (Ipob). But then, soon, Nnamdi Kanu discovered that their activities were working good for his own shenanigans. And so he decided a little bit to modify their modus operandi. They bought thousands of laptops. So most of those people you see on social media are actually responding from Kuwait. That is one group. And then you have those of us in Nigeria here. What they do is they pay you money to recharge your account, they buy data for you. They are everywhere in Nigeria and of course there is unemployment and somebody who can receive Android phone of 70,000 to 100,000 naira and laptop of 400,000 naira, they will do your bidding. So they are paid, they are encouraged, there is a lot of benefit to it and most of them think that they are fighting for their father's nation without knowing that they are being used". The BBC could not independently verify these claims, but we have seen broadcasts by some of the people identified as being part of this disinformation effort, admitting to being paid, either by Ipob or by supporters for the work they do. They are showing Omote Biafra and Ikem Patrick who are making a live broadcast. Omote Biafra says, ". . .So that money was sent to me and I shared it among the people whose names I". Ikem Patrick interrupts her and asks, "They gave you money to share among people"? Omote Biafra replies, "Yes, they gave me the money to share among ourselves". We contacted Ipob leadership with our findings from this investigation. The leadership replied but did not provide a response. We contacted all of the media warriors featured in this story to ask for their comments, but had no response. David Ajikobi of Africa Check says, "If you speak to most disinformation experts, fact checkers, they will tell you that language is a problem. In Nigeria alone, think about it, there are more than 200 languages. If tomorrow a particular section of Nigeria wanted to fight a particular section and they go into their language silos and ecosystems and things like that, you probably won't be able to pick it. And then let's say you get into Whatsapp, which is end to end encrypted, how are you as a fact checker going to understand what is happening in that space? It will take you somebody flagging it, then you now have to translate it into English, understand the context, understand the dialect, understand the language, how it is said, before you can actually do anything about it". They show Okenna Okechukwu making a broadcast and speaking in Igbo Language. Okenna Okechukwu, also known as Biafran Child, is one of the media warriors and he demonstrates this tactic when he calls for attacks on a known critic of Ipob. Okenna Okechukwu briefly switches to English and says, "Why I am saying this in my dialect is because I don't want them to stop me. I don't want them to block me. I don't want them to block me on this page, but what I am trying to tell you, for those of you that don't understand my dialect, ask people. . ." Posts on Mr Okechukwu's page claim that he has received warnings from Facebook. While this indicates that Facebook is doing something about disinformation, Nicholas Ibekwe believes that Ipob and its adaptable troll army has found fertile ground on Facebook and the social media platform should do more. Nicholas Ibekwe asks, "What is Facebook doing? Why are those videos still up on Facebook? People come in and do Facebook broadcasts for hours where they basically threaten people's lives, where they claim they will kill people and even take responsibility for some killings that have happened. While they do all these virtue signalling and call out and say all sort of. . .on Facebook. It seems Facebook has really really gone to sleep. Facebook does not think that these comments, these posts that they do on Facebook have consequences. The BBC reported 2 of the numerous broadcasts identified as containing potentially harmful disinformation and outright calls for attacks on people to Facebook. 3 different accounts reported the posts. They received the same statement saying their technology reviewed the report and ultimately decided not to take it down. They show a message from Facebook stating that the complainant can appeal to Facebook's oversight board. Facebook took down the broadcast on April 5th after the BBC sent links to them directly. It seems like the accounts that were reported to Facebook belong to Omote Biafra and Mrs Igwenagu because they showed their pictures while talking about the accounts. Watch the full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRvx2bBIj_o Pictures 2 and 3 = Efe Uwanogho aka Omote Biafra. Picture 4 = Mrs Nneka Igwenagu 8 Likes 6 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:16am On May 16, 2022 |
The video above was done by BBC Africa. The article below was done by BBC World Service's Disinformation Team. Ipob: Nigerian 'media warriors' call for killings on social media over Biafra https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61354014 Pictures 2-4: Some of the disinformation posts taken via screenshots of the BBC documentary. 6 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:18am On May 16, 2022 |
Picture 1: Chika Edoziem, head of Ipob's Directorate of State (DOS) encouraging the media warriors. Picture 2: The major media warriors. Pictures 3 and 4: Ipob members celebrating violent attacks. 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:18am On May 16, 2022 |
Reactions of Ipob members (on Twitter) to the BBC documentary. 2 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 4:18am On May 16, 2022 |
1 and 2: Posts of some Ipob media warriors. 3: Obituary of the Ogidi youth leader who was killed after Simon Ekpa and Nneka Igwenagu made threatening videos about him. The Ogidi youths staged a march to protest against Ipob's sit at home order and this march annoyed Simon Ekpa and Mrs Igwenagu. 4 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by OyeofIkoTuN(m): 4:38am On May 16, 2022 |
Trash Trash Trash... People abroad also caused the Sokoto killing of that girl.. People abroad caused the displacement of citizens as refugees People abroad are the cause of citizens in IDP camps People abroad are responsible for the bad roads and poor governance people abroad are responsible for the skull mining. People abroad are responsible for kidnappings people abroad are responsible for Abba Kyari people abroad are responsible for corruption and embezzlement.. People abroad are responsible for the suspects fleeing to Niger republic. You see how they are cleverly and dumbly shift blames First it was past administration that was chopping blames...Jonathan joining Apc blocked that Shifted to Lazy youths.....Endsars blocked that Shifted to IpOB.......Sokoto blocked that Now it's people in diaspora British that killed billions of Africans and is still intruding in our internal affairs...laughable, look at Yemen,Iraq, Syria,Libya...stinking smelling British BBC and fake propaganda news..You left the EU but want to trash talk here abi... We will leave when we like and it's deep in our hearts. BBC is fake and stale,you are colonizers and we want you out of our space 112 Likes 7 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Mooh247: 4:38am On May 16, 2022 |
When mainstream media get your time nothing can save you 425 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Mooh247: 4:42am On May 16, 2022 |
OyeofIkoTuN: The day Seun would dicide to forward your i.p details to law enforcement agencies for further investigation then you go understand that you are not annonymous you are barely been given the rear Priveledge of Freedom of expression which you have abused beyond normal BBC investigation always leads to criminal lawsuit and some time law suit at international Criminal Court... So you better use your senses when supporting IPOB Not like you can even afford quality legal representative sef . 457 Likes 17 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by OyeofIkoTuN(m): 4:51am On May 16, 2022 |
Please let seun do that fast..I'm not a slave my boi. I have my own sense of reason. Why did Britain leave the EU..? I'm not interested in your fake advise and trashy propaganda, BBC investigations ko,BBC castigations ni Where is the WMD in IraQ...Same BBC investigations before they invaded. Boy check front abeg what about the investigations about Bandits? Why haven't sponsors been published? Maliaifa that CBN deputy that is dead..that's real nigh...a news.. Fela..........Real nigh.....a news MNK.........real nigh......a news Gen theophilus....real nigh....a news I don't do Mainstream media..Fake fake fake Problems about weakling like you,everyone can't afford anything because you cannot.. If you are poor and miserable,don't generalize.. I've never displayed wealth here or bragged and I don't intend to start now and as for the legal representative,I challenge you to sue me,so your eyes fit clear small. I will never forget your handle in my life,during obigbo massacre, you cheered, saying wike your man. But we saw videos of how the army was shooting,you said kill them all.. Mooh247: 91 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by orisa37: 4:52am On May 16, 2022 |
IPOB IS ADVANCING!!! 20 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by OyeofIkoTuN(m): 4:55am On May 16, 2022 |
Let them stop sit at home..then we will take them serious..Today is Monday,let them go to the East and stop disturbing us here Mooh247: 19 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Tonypens48(m): 5:06am On May 16, 2022 |
Make I book space first 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Mooh247: 5:17am On May 16, 2022 |
OyeofIkoTuN: Na so them dey make noise last last when they come for you Na premium tears Continue bragging like you pass that small chap wey you be, hiding in Lagos and spreading propaganda of useless Simon Ekpa causing lawlessness leading to death of your own people at home Sebi BBC don get una time as una one destroy SouthEast hide for Lagos Scroll through all your comments on Nairaland and ask yourself if they come for you do you have real defence for your nonsense hate speeches . 422 Likes 11 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by helinues: 5:38am On May 16, 2022 |
We hear Nnamdi Kanu's broadcast and he says, "Kill them. If you see the Army and the Police in your village, kill all of them. Any vehicle you see from tonight, 12 midnight till 5, destroy it completely". The cheap attention the illiterates Ipob are craving for has been granted. Those who don't have an idea about how destructive the group is can now learn more from this article. Btw, BBC will be next attacking target. Anything to expose the activities of those miscreants always make their supporters and sympathizers uncomfortable 21 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 6:11am On May 16, 2022 |
Achika.
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Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naptu2: 6:14am On May 16, 2022 |
Their usual method on Nairaland. 1) Try to derail the thread by talking about other things. 2) Accuse you of doing the exact thing that they are doing. Some of them will even accuse you of being one of them (that is, being an Ipob member). 3) Try to provoke and insult you so that they can derail the thread with fights. 4) They will cook up conspiracy theories and use their usual misinformation to try and discredit you. 67 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by helinues: 6:18am On May 16, 2022 |
naptu2: Exactly how the Ipob dunces have been operating on social media. They are not interested in taking responsibility for any of their actions but would rather shift the blame to those who might not even have a clue about the happenings in their region. 23 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by AntiBMC(m): 6:18am On May 16, 2022 |
Buhari broadcasting crew 15 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by AntiBMC(m): 6:24am On May 16, 2022 |
Mooh247: Ok...Have they gotten enough of Bokoharam/ iswap time? Becos those terror groups are safer than the actual citizens of Nigeria. Babble some more when fulani Terrorism becomes a thing of the past 19 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by naijapips04: 6:42am On May 16, 2022 |
IPOB finally being properly profiled. This is a consequence of the previous week recognition by the UK. This documentary would be broadcasted in all BBC channels across UK and the rest of the world. The world is seeing IPOB as the terrorist con organisation they truly are. Soludos visit to Nnamdi KANU oshi is very significant. The game is up. They will use KANU and then dispose him. IPOB is toast. Simon Ekpa and the rest will be deported back to Nigeria. 19 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by kmarerin: 6:43am On May 16, 2022 |
Nkm |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by money121(m): 6:43am On May 16, 2022 |
Kk |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by didabap: 6:43am On May 16, 2022 |
Ipob pigs won't like this news 8 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Kodidan: 6:44am On May 16, 2022 |
Well carried out documentary 7 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by affable4(m): 6:44am On May 16, 2022 |
IMO, the whole marginalization/agitation thing has taken a new dimension. Illiterates in the SE are just flexing power and authority, while touts are living their fantasies of weilding fire arms. Release NNAMDI Kanu today, it will still take a long time to maintain relative peace in the SE. 7 Likes |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Yomose: 6:44am On May 16, 2022 |
Nice one |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by DrChukki: 6:46am On May 16, 2022 |
Despite growing up in the East and was at the epicentre of this whole agitation, I never supported IPOB and MNK ideology for once. I escaped being lynched by IPOB mob in 2017 in Aba simply because I was trying to give them reasons why we should concentrate on building our states rather than blaming the Hausa/Fulani for our failures. If not for the intervention of a good friend of mine and my dad, I would have died that day. If you're a good follower of MNK, you will always be thinking violence, hatred and sabotage. In fact, no follower of MNK reasons like a normal human irrespective of your level of education. MNK always advise that anyone not in support of IPOB is a saboteur that deserves to die. So being an Igbo man does not guarantee your safety in the hands of these brain-dead monsters. When I see them denying the killing of Igbos in the SE, I always laugh at them. I will advise that FG arrest that idịot in Finland called Simon Ekpa and bring him back to Nigeria, same way they did to MNK. That will also save us a lot. On another note, I blame this government for the way they handled this IPOB matter. If we had adopted other measures earlier other than using arms, we won't be in this level of mess today. God will help us 38 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by Winters23: 6:47am On May 16, 2022 |
The Brits working hard to keep the business arrangements intact in the Niger area... When are they going to do the usual documentary on the one country different constitution we have in the North? When are they going to call out Northern religious bigots who kill to defend their dead prophet? When are they going to mention the burden of the north on southern Nigerians? When are they going to apologise for the crime of amalgamation of 1914? Just when, when, when? Note: I am not ipob terrorist neither am Igbo, but I am tired of Northern parasites. 12 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by donprinyo(m): 6:47am On May 16, 2022 |
Nonsense, from a confused person 7 Likes |
Re: Full Text Of The BBC Documentary About IPOB by NEROSKY(m): 6:47am On May 16, 2022 |
Nairabush with disinformation in conjunction with Nigerian government and now bbc is like 5&6. 15 Likes 1 Share |
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