The National Broadcasting
Commission [NBC] on Friday said
it has arrested operators of Radio
Biafra, blocked the station from
Nigeria’s airwaves and seized its
transmission equipment in many
part of Nigeria’s South-East zone.
NBC’s Director General, Emeka
Mba, made this known Friday in
a statement made available to
PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr. Mba said his commission has
effectively neutralised the illegal
broadcast from the pirate radio
station he said had shattered the
peace of South-East Nigeria with
unsavoury messages.
“Working with security
operatives, the commission has
also tracked down, neutralized
and confiscated transmitter
equipment from several locations
in the region,” he said.
“Some suspects involved in the
illicit broadcasts have also been
arrested and taken to Abuja for
questioning and prosecution.
“The commission has also worked
with other agencies to remove the
transmissions of the illegal station
from the satellite, and this has put
paid to the divisive and disruptive
transmissions.”
He said the commission
appreciated the concerns
expressed by Nigerians over the
seditious activities of the illegal
radio station and urged the
people of the region to disregard
the messages purveyed by it.
Radio Biafra was floated by some
Nigerians in the South-East of the
country, who appear nostalgic of
the defunct Biafra Republic, which
ceased to exist at the end of the
Nigerian civil war in 1970.
While its backers say the radio caters for the
needs of people from the region, the network
is also known for propagating falsehood,
dangerous propaganda and ideology of the
former secessionist Republic.
This newspaper had on July 10 wrote an
editorial drawing attention to the disturbing
signals from the radio station and called for
urgent steps to curtail its excesses.
Four days later, the government said it had
successfully jammed its signals.
The permanent secretary in the Ministry of
Information, Shade Yemi-Esan, made this
known Tuesday while briefing journalists at
the presidential villa after briefing President
Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of her
ministry.
She claimed the NBC had successfully blocked
the signals of the radio station.
However, on July 15, PREMIUM TIMES
correspondents in the South-East of Nigeria,
and other listeners confirmed that station
remained on the airwaves as of Tuesday night
and Wednesday morning, long after Ms.
Yemi-Esan, told journalists it had been
blocked.
The station also denounced the claim by
government, tweeting that its terrestrial
transmission remained alive as well as its
online radio.
“Radio Biafra is live in Biafra land: NBC woe
to you and your lies: NBC lied to their master
and gullib…,” the radio tweeted.

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Beautiful waste of time.

Good news

Welrez:
Beautiful waste of time.

Really?

Usual Lies from the z**
All our engineers are intact
We are live and direct...

good

Story for the gods.
We did this.
We did that.

Hmm, why don't they leave these engineers to be? I bet some so called engrs in dat fiel can't do what these guys r doing...ptfff!

Propaganda

I thought kanu once urged his gullible almajiris to start destroying the "zoo" anytime they arrest any of their Biafra officials? What is stopping them?