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.”
