CNN finds ‘Radio Biafra’ location in London
For years now, Nigerians have asked for the location of ‘Radio Biafra’, a network of internet-based amateur radio stations broadcasting the agenda of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
On saturday, the Cable News Network (CNN) discovered a tucked away down a quiet, leafy street in Peckham, southeast London, the registered address of the group.
CNN described the place as a suburban spot, saying that it is the unlikely location of Radio Biafra.
Nnamdi Kanu founded IPOB in 2012 and established Radio Biafra in 2009. The group was created to restore an independent state of Biafra.
Radio Biafra was also created to disseminate, enlighten, educate, inform and criticise the activities of the Nigerian government by Kanu.
IPOB was banned by the Federal government in 2017. However, in October 19, 2015, Kanu was arrested for treasonable felony, sedition, and ethnic incitement. He was released on bail in 2017 and fled to the UK.
IPOB has criticized the Nigerian federal government for what it believes to be poor investment, political alienation, inequitable resource distribution, ethnic marginalization, heavy military presence, ‘extra-judicial killings’ in the South-Eastern and parts of North Central regions of the country.
IPOB and leader, Kanu were, however, exposed as misrepresenting the truth of situation in the country to gain sympathy from the international community.
Kanu was re-arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face his charges.
