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Biafra: Why FG Labeled IPOB Terrorist Organisation – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has revealed the main reason the federal government branded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist organization.
According to the Minister, the pro-Biafra group had to be labeled a terror group in order to halt its global funding and, by extension, its ‘future’.
Mohammed, who made this known in an article he wrote for Washington Times, appealed to Nigeria’s “international partners to do the same.”
He wrote, “Currently, streams of cash come from across the globe to swell the organization’s stockpile of weapons. Yet funding of terrorism is illegal in international law. Only with the group’s correct categorization will our international partners be able to halt the financing — and with it, IPOB’s future.
“Terrorism is often called the power of the weak. That IPOB indeed are. But if the last decade has taught us anything, it is how quickly the weak can become strong.
“The government reiterates its appeal to its international partners to proscribe the organization, and in doing so, starve it of the funds which gives it sustenance.
“Nigeria has just defeated one preventable terrorist insurgency. This one must not be given the chance to get a foothold.
“The threat posed by the organization may be low. IPOB commands little grass-root support in the South East (the region it calls Biafra). All South-East governors have collectively condemned IPOB’s calls for secession. And local traditional and religious leaders have weighed into the debate, restating that absolute integrity of Nigeria.
“Violence, much less terrorism, never solves grievance. And for that reason, the overwhelming majority of residents in the South-East reject IPOB. They know the ballot box offers the best mechanism for redress.
“In spite of this, the latent threat is high. Boko Haram similarly had little support in the North East in 2009. They didn’t need it. Armed with terror and buoyed by government inaction, they seized large swathes of land. Inertia in Abuja lubricated the group’s advance. But now due to this government’s actions, Boko Haram hold no local districts.
“This administration shall not make the same mistake as the last. We will take the rapid, precise and necessary action required to deal with IPOB now.
“The government recognizes in IPOB’s lust for destruction a trait shared with Boko Haram. It also appreciates a qualitative difference in the threat. Unlike Boko Haram — a regional insurgency — IPOB breeds insecurity across the whole nation. In their divisive and inciting rhetoric, they jeopardize the very social fabric that binds us.”
Johnbosco fidelis
October 14, 2017 at 8:55 am
Old brain
Johnbosco
October 14, 2017 at 8:49 am
Fool as old as you are
Ezeoke Evarist Chinedu
October 14, 2017 at 6:54 am
No need for your parochial and warped explanations.
Victor Chukwudi
October 14, 2017 at 4:13 am
Oga I know that you will have at list one lie for each microphone there
Ifey Bekee
October 14, 2017 at 3:03 am
Cletus Achuna
October 14, 2017 at 2:10 am
You should also label opc nd arewa as terrorist groups
Alfa Alfred
October 14, 2017 at 2:02 am
Rubbish rant
Ogbuji Okwudiridavid
October 13, 2017 at 10:53 pm
You’re born as terrorist
Afunwa Stephen Stephen
October 13, 2017 at 10:36 pm
Linus why are you so begging the civilized countries to help you tag a whole Biafra Nation as a terrorist..please Linus reason well for once ok.
Nwokedi Nnaemeka
October 13, 2017 at 10:07 pm
Talking rubbish
Tochukwu James
October 13, 2017 at 9:11 pm
WHO is to blame for ur position D devil or buharis illiteracy?
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October 13, 2017 at 9:11 pm
Lie mohammed can’t u be ashamed of yourself,you tagged a group without guns a terrorist while you said that the mourders fulani herdsmen are saint and u also said that declaring boko haram a terrorist is against their human right,u are most stupid man
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October 13, 2017 at 7:56 pm
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October 13, 2017 at 7:20 pm
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Ibe Paulinus
October 13, 2017 at 7:18 pm
u stil talkin
Cee Cee Ibezym
October 13, 2017 at 7:11 pm
Lie, you think we are playing?
Chris Njoku
October 13, 2017 at 7:56 pm
Lai Mohammed you certainly live up to your name- Liaer Mohammed. Only demented fools like you and gullible zoonirians would believe this trash you allegedly wrote in New Times. Educated Americans and world experts would certainly analyse your diatribe and say. This is hog wash !
Eziekem Damian
October 13, 2017 at 6:54 pm
i still dont get this, people are slaughtered by fulani herdsmen no one talks about it yet this fool is talking about terror from unarmed group. southern nigerians are the bigger fools here.
Oshia Junior
October 13, 2017 at 6:50 pm
LIE AGAIN CUS YOUR NAME IS LIA MUGU… OLD STUPID FOOLS WHO CANT EVEN SAY THE TRUTH BECAUSE OF POWER SEE YOUR GRAVE IS COMING CLOSE AT YOUR AGE
Christopher Ochini
October 13, 2017 at 6:45 pm
Evil man
John Iheanacho Ezugwu
October 13, 2017 at 6:44 pm
The greatest liar of our time. You have no shame.
Ekene Udensi
October 13, 2017 at 6:35 pm
And God has rebelled APC poisonous and failed govt ,as de worst govt ever.. Coward.
Nwogu Chibuike Onyekachi
October 13, 2017 at 6:19 pm
Zoo
Julie Ogbu Ebuenyi
October 13, 2017 at 6:14 pm
Lier Muhammed is a boko haram terrorist. He is the information minister of the boko haram.
Golden Heart
October 13, 2017 at 6:14 pm
Lai Please tell us the Result of the Letter FG wrote to US begging them to Proscribe IPOD a Terrorist Organization as we have yet to see the result…. Ndi Ara
Julie Ogbu Ebuenyi
October 13, 2017 at 6:13 pm
Old Lier from the pit of hell. A PhD holder in lieology.
Wilson Mike
October 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm
You said you want to kill the future of the indigenous people of Biafra. It is the future of Arewa that will die.
Jose Bakker
October 13, 2017 at 6:09 pm
Idiot what of ur brothers herdsmen
Nnaji-Edeh Innocent
October 13, 2017 at 6:03 pm
The real face of liar Lucifer
Wilson Mike
October 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm
Lai Muhammad you are mad and will die very soon. Biafra must come, biafra must be restored. The world knows what terrorist is much more than you, you are idiot
Umealokwtere Chukwudi Felix
October 13, 2017 at 5:59 pm
Thief
Engr Chidi Aloysius Nwosu
October 13, 2017 at 5:56 pm
Referendum
Joachin Nwaokeleme
October 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm
Lai Mohammed and his people are global terrorists.
Rex James-onu
October 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm
Ever lying Mohammed
Locoh Diego
October 13, 2017 at 5:46 pm
Nizooria government is terrorist sponsor buhari was the former governor of borno state where those boko haram are ravaging now he created jihad there when he was a governor
Kingsley Istanbul Vam
October 13, 2017 at 5:46 pm
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Uzochukwudimma Agubuike
October 13, 2017 at 5:46 pm
Here are the real terrorist
Chukwunwike Nwa Amawbia Egwuonwu
October 13, 2017 at 5:45 pm
Cloth that gutter. Animal in the zoo
Prince Chiedozie
October 13, 2017 at 5:38 pm
Liar Muhammad at it again!
Ik Brown Brown
October 13, 2017 at 5:38 pm
old fools animal from mokey zoo call nigeria
Archimedes Perfect
October 13, 2017 at 5:35 pm
nigeria MUST CONTINUE TO DIMINISH IN SIZE AND SHAPE WHEN EVER #”BIAFRA”IS MENTION….
Uchenna Okafo
October 13, 2017 at 5:34 pm
Mr liar
Eze Sadam Chris
October 13, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Idiot
Eke Safe
October 13, 2017 at 5:31 pm
They have no reason, senseless country
Obaino D Tempoka
October 13, 2017 at 5:31 pm
Let thunderstorm from Afghanistan fall on u idiotic lai Mohammed and your evil fulanis.
Paschal Nwankwo
October 13, 2017 at 5:25 pm
Idiotic moron like u lair Mohammed
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October 13, 2017 at 5:23 pm
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October 13, 2017 at 5:20 pm
Devil’s 1st graduate in lieology
Kingsley Aforonwa
October 13, 2017 at 5:18 pm
y and not fulani herdsmen?
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October 13, 2017 at 5:15 pm
THE WORSE FOOL ON EARTH