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Newly obtained United States Department of Justice documents have revealed how pro-Biafra groups influenced US policymakers to take a hard stance on Nigeria.

The filings show that President Donald Trump designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, in part, due to pressure from diaspora advocacy organisations.

US Senator Ted Cruz has amplified the claims, accusing the Nigerian government of enabling a massacre against Christians.

In a video shared on X, Cruz said no country in the world persecutes Christians more than Nigeria.

He cited several deaths and churches destroyed by Boko Haram and other extremists since 2009.

The documents trace the campaign to the United States of Biafra, a coalition that includes the Biafra Republic Government in Exile and the Biafra De Facto Government in the Homeland.

These groups are required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act because they aim to influence US policy.

According to the filings, the advocacy is carefully targeted at American audiences, especially conservative political groups aligned with Trump.

The narrative frames support for Biafra as a way to protect Christians and counter China’s influence in Africa.

The group’s international strategy is further revealed in a joint declaration signed in Lahti, Finland, on December 2, 2024.

The signatories accused Nigeria of a “genocidal onslaught” against Biafrans and Christians.

Among them was Simon Ekpa, a Finnish citizen and self-declared prime minister of the movement, who is currently serving a six-year prison sentence in Finland for terrorism-related offences and financial crimes.

Other signatories include Dr Ngozi Orabueze and Diane Emeh, both US citizens occupying key leadership positions.

The documents show the group operates more to build legitimacy abroad than within Nigeria itself.

The filings also detail the organisation’s internal governance and activities, including leadership of diaspora members, fundraising, humanitarian work, appointments, and public pronouncements.

After an internal vote conducted from February to November 2024, the movement declared the restoration of the United States of Biafra.

It claimed authority over forty confederating states.

Ekpa was named coordinator of the transition government.

Daily Trust reports that the Trump administration’s move to designate Nigeria as CPC came amid growing calls from US lawmakers and activist groups alleging that Nigeria has been failing to protect its Christian population.

The designation triggers enhanced scrutiny of Nigeria’s religious freedom record and signals potential diplomatic consequences, though it does not automatically impose sanctions.

The dispute intensified when US politicians and civil society actors highlighted ongoing violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and northern regions, including attacks on churches and mass killings.

But the government had denied the claims saying both Christians and Muslims have been killed by the bandits.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/exposed-how-biafra-groups-influenced-trumps-genocide-claim/?noamp=available&fbclid=IwY2xjawOLSeFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7E5ls0awRWjUMmm6GelVa_OjXXkH2s3wndKIHAKOJhKWXhVp53UvJvXdkpgQ_aem_PwqsvHiyRCSdS2HsmbacQQ

The truth will eventually come out. We are waiting for more revelation

I insisted on the handiwork of the lobbyists about this issue. So exactly

https://www.nairaland.com/8563807/muslim-muslim-ticket-attack-justification

helinues:
The truth will eventually come out. We are waiting for more revelation

https://www.nairaland.com/8563807/muslim-muslim-ticket-attack-justification

hopefully, your entire government has gone to Washington to meet one US congressman. There they can blame IPOB as usual.

BTW, I thought Biafra is an online country?

Armaggedon:
hopefully, your entire government has gone to Washington to meet one US congressman. There they can blame IPOB as usual.

BTW, I thought Biafra is an online country?

Hope you can see the source on the thread.
This is not time for shifting from the narration

helinues:
Hope you can see the source on the thread. This is not time for shifting from the narration

yea, I saw it. It's a genocide denying source.

Armaggedon:
yea, I saw it. It's a genocide denying source.

Muson and Moson pronunciation na same. We said this earlier that the Trump's reaction was influenced by the lobbyists, so exactly with this revelation.

What do you have to say about the report

The Muslim have been the most affected with the killings in North, so who are the people killing the christians in Southern Nigeria

Those behind this narration did not even think about the ricochet effects of their own actions.

Would you talk about the people killing the christians in Southern regions most especially in South East without Linkin it back to Ipob, a group about Biafra movement.

Abi, if majority of the Igbo's are christians, no be Ipob, Biafra movement dey operate for that axis?

Yet, na the group go report christian percecution in Nigeria. Crying shouldn't make one to be blind

What is exposed in this? Isn't it an obvious fact? Doe any body have to tell you they are behind the whole thing? They have also bride some US lawmakers to push such agenda but one thing is certain. They have always failed 100% of the time and this wouldn't be an exception

helinues:
Muson and Moson pronunciation na same. We said this earlier that the Trump's reaction was influenced by the lobbyists, so exactly with this revelation.

What do you have to say about the report

The Muslim have been the most affected with the killings in North, so who are the people killing the christians in Southern Nigeria

Watch him twist the narrative and point fingers at other people even when there governor have exposed them as been the culprit

mascot87:
Watch him twist the narrative and point fingers at other people even when there governor have exposed them as been the culprit

Bro, with this revelation now even though it should be logical before, to those who have fell for it, to those who have argued against, what would their perception be after reading this.

Because that's a deliberate mischievousness

helinues:
Bro, with this revelation now even though it should be logical before, to those who have fell for it, to those who have argued against, what would their perception be after reading this.

Because that's a deliberate mischievousness

Below is a video of kanu speaking against Christian genocide during Trump's first tenure.

What has changed?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/790146544022309/

If tinubu and his tribesmen wail from now till eternity.. walahi Allah e changes nothing ..

It is what it is ..

The Yoruba tribe gave it to former president good luck Jonathan without conscience.. now another group is giving them same pill.. they can’t take it as men do..

This is absolute si si..

Some tribe need to start taking what they give comfortable without qualms .. not looking for blame .

Taking responsibilities of actions boldly is the hall mark of integrity and boldness

Tinubu and his people are steadily showing the world .. the kind of humans they’re .

And the world is taking note .

If na Biafrans really pushed this .. then is better Nigerians and Nigeria have to wake to reality without sentiments .

If trump can act on what Yoruba tag as sentiments not reality.. then Biafra might be a reality anytime soon.

Congratulations to people that really pushed for this …

To haters … it well with you guys.. while you keep wailing non stop

I’m beginning to love all this

God bless Nigeria
God bless Nigerians

God help PDP and other political parties survive the Yoruba government unslaught against democracy.

Nigerians are winners in all


Power to the people !!

but why most muslim were scared of us invade?? he wanna go after bandits and boko harAm terroist not laws abiding muslims

This one done take over the work of that dead vulture griller

helinues:
Muson and Moson pronunciation na same. We said this earlier that the Trump's reaction was influenced by the lobbyists, so exactly with this revelation.

What do you have to say about the report

The Muslim have been the most affected with the killings in North, so who are the people killing the christians in Southern Nigeria

The same Nigerian government and her Fulani home grown terrorist are responsible for the killings in the douth

helinues:
Those behind this narration did not even think about the ricochet effects of their own actions.

Would you talk about the people killing the christians in Southern regions most especially in South East without Linkin it back to Ipob, a group about Biafra movement.

Abi, if majority of the Igbo's are christians, no be Ipob, Biafra movement dey operate for that axis?

Yet, na the group go report christian percecution in Nigeria. Crying shouldn't make one to be blind

Oga you are not making Sense

mascot87:
What is exposed in this? Isn't it an obvious fact? Doesn't any body have to tell you they are behind the whole thing? They have also bride some US lawmakers to push such agenda but one thing is certain. They have always failed 100% of the time and this wouldn't be an exception

So the middle belt Christian Leaders that went to the American Congress public hearing to complian about the genocide is not enough to drag the Americans but just becoa some useless Northern Newspaper posted this guess work they call fact and you hurriedly believe them hor the hate of the IGBOS..My fri nd go and rescue your grand mother kidnapped by the Fulani terrorist you love soo much to protect and leave Igbo matter for us

Blablabla.


Has Igbo not tormented you guys enough so to say?

Expel the Biafra group and stop crying! They have clout internationally

Look at the Monika before reading the news and tell me what you expect from him

They're always trying to twist the narrative.
We've seen videos of people from middle belt cry out of being persecuted.
Are Christians being killed?
How many times do these killers attack and shot in mosques like they do in churches, how many times have the burnt down mosques like they do to churches?

So the igbos drew Trump's attention to an actual genocide in Nigeria? Seems like those Igbos are looking out for the wellbeing of Nigerians. Kudos to them

Today's is judgement day on Nnamdi Kanu's trial so I expect a propaganda article against him and IPOB on the front page today, as expected, they didn't disappoint. The country is been overrun by Fulani terrorists but the government is more concerned about fighting Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB for exposing the Islamization and fulanization agenda against Christians in Nigeria.

Who is buying the nonsense?

This owo mida news outlet should stop lying. So,all the men and women being killed in plateau,Nasarawa,Bornu,Niger,Benue and many more I can't mentioned here are not Christians?

Even senator Ndume recently mentioned that many christian communities in his district have been wiped off and the people have been displaced notoriously.

This news outlet is not saying the truth.

This is not a matter of Biafra
North and west are real pain in the arse. Why not bundle up yourselves and go

Stup*d post.

Reno, Tinubu, Buhari and other APC people that gained power by telling Obama about genocide in Nigeria are to blame.

Stewpidity is when you think that you can marginalise a group to no end for almost a century now, short-changed them by cornering most earnings from the resources coming from their environment, massacre them for fun, relegate them to the back burner of politics in their own country, gang up to make sure they have the smallest quantity ofe every government project if any, call them 5% and a dot in a circle, arrest their most firebrand leaders, exclude their kids from student loans while manipulating University entrance exams just to skew developments away from their region....., THEN you expect them to be hyper-patriotic to the cause of national developments and integration!

Haba mallam! Fear God naa..

While not accepting that it was Biafran groups that instigated Trump, let me say that the problem here should be that the South Easterners are not doing enough to ridicule Nigeria. They should be pushing back. If as Nigerians, you want a progressive country, I guess the best way to start is to run a country that treats evevry part as equal members of the union. The very moment you try to institutionalise a "black on black apartheid system", you should prepare for a push back. .. Its what it's..
I guess that's what our good brothers from the east are doing roght now;push back.., and that is perfectly FAIR!

Biafra group also imported fulani militia that are kidnapping school girls and killing soldiers in the North....
Nonsense journalism

This country is just full of foolish people.... And most of this people and have not been to whr this issue are happening...if u experience this thing once and u're lucky to be alive, u will never follow the remaining fools to politicize the safety of other people, no one will dispute the fact that ipob are wrecking havoc in the east but do you wanna tell me they are responsible for mass genocide committed in borno...zamfara ...katsina kebbi..niger etc hmm?

Ablesam171:
They're always trying to twist the narrative

This. Always trying to shift blames. They succeeded in the past. It won't happen again

Because those who pushed the false narrative made it a Muslim/christian thing. They forgot to add that there were terrorists in the south too who weren't muslims and has been killing their fellow Christians.

muyico:
but why most muslim were scared of us invade?? he wanna go after bandits and boko harAm terroist not laws abiding muslims

Then the Igbos are very powerful people