A Coalition of Civil Society
Organizations for Transparency and Good Governance has warned that the Nnamdi
Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will be worse than Boko Haram if
not urgently tackled.
Speaking at a press conference in
Abuja on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of the organization, Sabo Ode
recalled Kanu had declared ‘Biafra Republic’ same as Shekau declared an Islamic
Caliphate; where he called Nigerians animals like Shekau called them infidels.
He said, “Both men promised to
deliver the heads of Nigerian Presidents to their declared enclaves; IPOB and
Boko Haram adopted flags other than the green-white-green; they formed
cabinets; they radicalised youths, they called for attacks on Nigeria and
Nigerians; and they both declared the state and its military as their enemy.”
Ode said the coalition had observed
that some unrepentant members of IPOB have resorted to ramping up their
campaign of fake news, which they have been using to brainwash residents in
south-east.
“The pseudo-online news portals
they deploy for their propaganda have ramped up their farcical activities to an
extent that they are now lying against foreign dignitaries in the hope that
this would distract the Federal Government from its resolve to protect all
Nigerians.
“The latest of such attempt is an
headline “EU Condemns and Cautions Nigerian Military, Reject the Declaration of
IPOB as a Terrorist Organization”. In the poorly written story cooked up to
justify the lying headline, the impression was created that the President of
the European Union Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker was in support of a
Terrorist organisation destroying Nigeria. Unfortunately for this fake news
site, the slightest fact checking reveals no such statement exists in the
database of if statements issued by the EU Commission or Juncker.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the
most current news about Juncker and the EU is about him doing his best to
prevent BREXIT, the break away of Great Britain from the EU even after Britons
have voted in a referendum to leave the union. Our view is that it will take a
supremely illiterate persons to attempt blackmailing Nigeria with fake news
while using an organization and leader that favour more countries staying
together to form a super nation.”
Ode called on Nigerians not to be
swayed by such lies and to take note of sites that circulate such fake news.
“Such sites also make a mockery
of the intellectual capacity of those that shared the fake news on their social
media handles. Nothing can be as humiliating as knowing that one has helped
publicised a crass lie and one should be rightly ashamed of whatever damage the
re-telling of such lies
“IPOB terrorists are by this put
on notice that there are international precedents that make people like them
liable for their online activities as if same crimes were committed in person
physically. Those who circulate fake news for the terror group are as culpable
as the ones that carry out attacks on their behalf,” said Ode.
He also cautioned the
international community not to be hoodwinked by merchants of darkness bent at
destabilizing the country.
“The EU is aware enough about the
devastating implications of terrorism. Its member nations are still reeling
from taking in refugees from the botched Arab Spring uprising and the wave of
destabilization in its wake. Some of these refugees turned out to be embedded
terrorists that are now attacking their hosts.”
He further appealed to law
enforcement agencies in Nigeria to fish put purveyors of fake news as it is one
of the weapons that terrorists are relying on to destabilize Nigeria.
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There's no reasonable basis for your ill-conceived comparison. Do you know what Boko Haram is aiming at? Is it the same objective with IPOB?
ReplyDeleteReally Boko Haram started just like that and if you take a look at their similarities they are ALL the same .
ReplyDeleteU people are sick in the brain that is why u cannot reason the difference a hausa-fulani from a pure Igbo man
ReplyDeleteChai.... Illiteracy is a very big disease
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