BIAFRA: IPOB USING FAKE VIDEOS TO MISLEAD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – FG
BIAFRA: IPOB
USING FAKE VIDEOS TO MISLEAD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY – FG
The Federal Government has accused members of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) of using fake videos of mass killings from other
African countries to mislead the international community.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, stated this when he addressed Online Publishers in Lagos on Monday.
The background:
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had written a
petition to the United Nations and the United States after a clash with troops
of the Nigerian Army.
They had alleged that they were being victimised by the army
and marginalised by the Nigerian government.
Lai Mohammed’s allegations:
- IPOB
is writing to the government of western nations, claiming that they were
being victimised.
He said, ”We must warn the nation against IPOB’s next line
of action, which is to externalise their lies and propaganda. Now they are
writing to the governments and the national parliaments of some Western nations
to give the impression that they are victims of an ethno-sectarian
violence orchestrated by the government, hence they need protection.
violence orchestrated by the government, hence they need protection.
”Some of the tools that have been employed by IPOB include
blatant lies and cheap propaganda, and the medium of choice for the
organization is the social media.
“IPOB has harvested gory videos and pictures from other
lands and the distant past, which they are now circulating via the social
media, to deceive the international community into believing that the people of
the South-East are being subjected to state-sponsored, ethno-religious
violence.
”Such videos, which have very high emotive quotient, are
circulating on the social media as we speak. These videos are doctored to make
them look current. They are fake.”
