Banned IPOB launches Hausa radio service, says it’s the beginning of mass revolution

Despite its outlawed status, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has launched “Radio Nigeria Hausa service,” in efforts to further its demand for sovereign state of Biafra.

This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful in a statement he made available to newsmen on Thursday, explain that the radio service would be a channel through which IPOB will send out unbiased “message of liberation to the oppressed” indigenous northerners.

According to Powerful, the first broadcast of the service would air on Saturday, January, 6, at 7pm Nigerian time.

“The broadcast will have the widest coverage of any radio signal in Africa. It will be received all over West, East and Southern Africa. Every Hausa speaking community in Africa will be able to receive it.

“In our opinion, we feel it has become imperative to educate the poor masses of northern Nigeria. The ruling class cleverly enslaved and impoverished ethnic populations of the north by keeping vital information and knowledge away from them.

“This information deficit is what Radio Nigeria Hausa Service has come to remedy.

“Regardless of ethnicity, religion or creed, IPOB is pursuing an agenda of freedom for all. Our message is very simple, 2018 will be like no other in the history of Nigeria and will prove to be the year of liberation for those brave enough to confront the evil that Nigeria has become in the lives of millions of people,” the statement read in part.

The statement further said that those with the notion that IPOB has been weakened due to the absence its leader Nnamdi Kanu are “deluding themselves” and “are in for an almighty shock”.

It added, “This move today is the beginning of a mass revolution against our oppressors that will spread outside the borders of Biafraland”.

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The whereabouts of Kanu, the leader of IPOB has remained unknown after Nigerian soldiers allegedly invaded his home in Umuahia mid September 2017.

The group was recently proscribed and branded a terrorist organisation by the Nigeria Government. It has however dragged the Federal Government to court challenging its proscription and terrorist tag.

 

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