The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has alleged that the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, television station, Biafra Television
is currently using Nigeria’s airwaves to transmit its programmes.
Addressing reporters in Ilorin, Kwara State, the Director General,
NBC, Modibo Kawu, claimed that his organisation was yet to identify the
actual location of the media house.
Kawu disclosed that the development was already known to relevant
security agencies, adding that the NBC and other relevant bodies had not
been able to block the station.
He said, “Last week, I was in the office of the Inspector- General of
Police and they had a TV screen and what was being broadcast was on
Biafra Television; they were saying some of the most outlandish things,
showing videos from the 1960s and abusing everyone.
“Now, this is happening and they were asking us (NBC) and they would
ask us because our duty is to monitor and regulate such but the
television is coming from outside of Nigeria.
“Our engineers have been making contacts with the international
satellite organisation that does broadcast to Africa about the fact that
you cannot allow subversive broadcast into Nigeria from other parts of
the world.
“The Biafra Television in the South-East, we have been tracking the
station. The broadcast is coming from outside Nigeria. We have been
asking questions from international satellite test systems where they
are coming from. That is how it is for now.”
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