Igbo secessionist agitation
group, the Indigenous People of Biafra is fuming over the blockage of social
media account of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu by social media giant, Facebook.
Emma Powerful, spokesperson of
IPOB claimed in a statement on Wednesday that Kanu’s Facebook page was blocked
after his live broadcast on Tuesday night.
The IPOB spokesperson accused
Facebook managers in Lagos and Abuja of colluding with corrupt Nigerian
government officials to block the social media page in the long, ranting
statement.
He likened the action of Facebook
to how the British government allegedly prevented information from Biafra from
going out during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 — 1970.
He said, “The Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) is appalled at the despicable attitude of Facebook for
blocking the Facebook page of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, after his
expository and explosive live broadcast on Tuesday night. It is not only
baffling but too petty for a global social media giant like Facebook to allow
itself to be used by agents of oppression in Nigeria to suppress the truth,”
the statement partly read.
“We strongly condemn this
attitude of Facebook managers in Lagos and Abuja who collude with corrupt
Nigerian government officials to suppress the free flow of Information via
their platform. This unconscionable and reprehensible attitude amounts to partnering
with perpetrators of human rights abuses and other criminal activities
masterminded by the Nigeria state against innocent citizens.
“The Fulani-controlled federal
government and its foot soldiers – terrorist herdsmen and bandits – have
continued to subjugate indigenous nations in the country, including Biafrans
with the intent for conquest. These foot soldiers on a daily basis unleash all
sorts of mayhem on the innocent and hapless indigenous peoples while the
federal government mischievously remains docile.
“These vampires masquerading as
herdsmen have forcibly seized our forests and converted our farms to grazing
fields for their cattle. They have equally turned our ancestral lands to
slaughterhouses where they kill with impunity in most dehumanising manners,
innocent locals going about their legitimate business. They commit these crimes
unchallenged by security operatives. They kidnap for ransoms, maim and rape our
women. They feed their cattle with our crops, and Facebook is saying we don’t
have a right to cry out?”
“Now that our leader has started
exposing the atrocities of these wolves in human clothing, Facebook has decided
to be an accomplice to mass murder and oppressive tendencies of Fulani
Janjaweed rulers of Nigeria. Why should Facebook block the account of the
leader of the largest peaceful mass movement in the world for speaking the
bitter truth people are too terrified to talk about?
“Why hasn’t Facebook prevailed on
the perpetrators of these heinous crimes in Nigeria to stop their atrocities
instead of denying innocent victims media access? Facebook is quick to fall for
the lie of agents of oppression and accuse us of hate speech but fails to
realise that hate action begets hate speech if in the Facebook lexicon, bitter
truth translates to hate speech.
“This unholy act is only akin to what Britain
and her allies did to Biafra during the Genocidal War of 1967-70 when they
imposed land, air and media blockade on Biafra in order to deny the truth about
the ongoing genocide from going out.
“Facebook, it seems does not want
the atrocities of Fulani killer herdsmen to come to the knowledge of the world
but they have failed woefully. Facebook is today assisting an oppressive
government that pampers, frees and settles ‘captured’ terrorists while doing
nothing to protect or rehabilitate victims of terror.”
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