UK Cautions Nigeria Over Radio Biafra

UK Cautions Nigeria Over Radio Biafra

The United Kingdom has released a terse
statement indicting Nigeria after the Minister
of Information insinuated that the UK had
not shut the radio station.

The United Kingdom has blamed Nigeria for
the continued operation of pirate Radio
Biafra which the Indigenous People of Biafra
(POB) uses to preach hate against the
country.
The radio  station domiciled in the UK was
established by the Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB) with Mr. Nnamdi Kanu as Director.

Kanu, also a British citizen, operated the
radio on behalf of MASSOB and later took
over the radio as a megaphone of IPOB.
The British government seems not happy with
reports credited to Nigerian information and
culture minister Lai Mohammed, who
insinuated that the UK had not shut the
radio station.

The minister recently accused some people in
France and United Kingdom of having links
with the proscribed IPOB. According to
reports, Mohammed was quoted that that
“the financial headquarters” of the
separatist group “is in France”.
He said this is a “fact”, while faulting the UK
for not doing something to stop Biafra radio
from airing over there.

As the Minister pointed out, the Biafra Radio
was probably not taken down by the UK
authorities being that the radio is a free
channel of communication available to any
law-abiding person.

Very much like the internet and social media,
anyone who has the license to operate a
radio can always air whatever they want to.