OFFICIAL: UK GOVT DESIGNATES IPOB AS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
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Kalu Idika
6 May 2022


The United Kingdom government has finally designated the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation after the gruesome beheading of an army couple who were on their way to Imo State.

The UK government after proscribing the group, also directed that it should be excluded from its asylum programme.

The brutal killing of the army couple was not among the atrocities of Nnamdi Kanu-led killer group the UK government listed in its policy review document, the action was taken a few days after the murder.

The acts of terrorism listed by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Office against the ruthless murderous group (IPOB) include, the invasion of an All Progressives Congress (APC) meeting in Enugu state where a party chieftain was killed; attack on Imo Police formation where an officer was killed; killing of Anambra residents during enforcement of counter-productive ”sit-at-home” order; killing of some policemen en route to Anambra International Airport, among others.

All the bizzare attacks occurred only in January 2022 alone. Recall that last year, UKVI had released new guidelines to its decision makers on how to consider and grant asylum applications to IPOB.

Meanwhile, in a fresh update published on its website three days ago, UKVI has revised the policy.


“IPOB is proscribed as a terrorist group by the Nigerian government, and members of the group and its paramilitary wing – the Eastern Security Network (created in December 2020) – have reportedly committed human rights violations in Nigeria,” UKVI said in its policy notes.

“MASSOB has been banned, but is not a proscribed terrorist group in Nigeria. It too has reportedly been involved in violent clashes with the authorities.

“If a person has been involved with IPOB (and/or an affiliated group), MASSOB or any other ‘Biafran’ group that incites or uses violence to achieve its aims, decision makers must consider whether one (or more) of the exclusion clauses under the Refugee Convention is applicable.

“Persons who commit human rights violations must not be granted asylum.

The policy also directed that decision makers must also check if there has been a previous application for a UK visa or another form of leave, noting that asylum applications matched to visas should be investigated before the asylum interview.

“The question is whether the particular person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their actual or imputed convention reason,” it added.

“The question is whether the particular person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their actual or imputed convention reason,” it added.

For an asylum application to succeed, it said the decision-makers must consider each case on its facts, taking into account the legal status, profile, size, and organisation of the group/organisation to which the person belongs and its activities; whether a person in the UK would wish to continue their activism if returned to Nigeria (if not, why not) and whether the group/organisation has a presence in Nigeria as well as outside of the country and any evidence that it is being monitored by the government.

Other considerations include the person’s profile and political activities (including those online) and relevant documentary or other evidence; the profile and activities of family members; past treatment of the person, and evidence that their activities in the UK may have come to the attention of the Nigerian security agencies.

For an asylum application to succeed, it said the decision-makers must consider each case on its facts, taking into account the legal status, profile, size, and organisation of the group/organisation to which the person belongs and its activities; whether a person in the UK would wish to continue their activism if returned to Nigeria (if not, why not) and whether the group/organisation has a presence in Nigeria as well as outside of the country and any evidence that it is being monitored by the government.

Other considerations include the person’s profile and political activities (including those online) and relevant documentary or other evidence; the profile and activities of family members; past treatment of the person, and evidence that their activities in the UK may have come to the attention of the Nigerian security agencies.


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You will all suffer for what you did not do as well!.

#EndIPOBnow to save lives.

This violent street gang is thanks to God diminishing.

We do not want them in SS or SE.

Since Maiyegun the m0nkey loves them from safety in scotland, he should invite his friends IPOB to that land.

Nnamdi Kanu & fool pen of fools, IPOB, ESN have always been terrorists.
It's a pity it took the rest of the world longer to recognize.

Modified: In reference to the picture below, he is now in jail cooling off; and if u understand how the court system works, then u'll agree that he'll be there for a long long lonnngggg time

cherishmichael:
[s]You will all suffer for what you did not do as well![/s].

U've been brainwashed bro.

Read below.....
U tell Ndi-Igbo to boycott election and not vote, how then will our voices be heard?

Even the so-called REFERENDUM they are talking about, they don't even know the processes for that. It simply means.. (A VOTE on a proposed law or constitutional ammendment).
Without ur PVCs, how would that happen?

U tell people to sit at home, meanwhile we have Ndi-Igbo in the markets (fathers, mothers), business people who if they don't sell daily, they can't feed their families. How will they survive?

Business men & women who come from all over Nigeria to Patronize Ariaria Int'l Market Aba, Onitcha Main market, etc, now stop for their transactions in Asaba. Chai!

The rich men IPOB/ESN are enviously targeting are still our self-made Igbo brothers who toiled very hard for their money. Now they are successful & employers of labour. But u kidnap & chase them away, who then will employ us?

...You sideline and destroy properties of our Igbo Politicians, Senators, Governors,etc, who then will speak for us in Abuja?

.... You attack the police securing the community, who then will protect us against your kidnappings, robbery, murder, crime?
Odinma biko nu

....Ralph Uwazuruike after pioneering MASSOB in the early 2000s, dashing the hopes for Igbo presidency, messing up the census exercise for Ndi-Igbo now openly supports an outsider Yahaya Bellow for President...Chai! How then do we get to the Federal?

...Nnamdi Kanu, whatever Ekpa & his autopiloters are spoilers who are sponsored by enemies of Ndi-igbo who want us to kill ourselves, if we allow this to happen how then do we thrive as a people?
Chineke ekwela!!!

It's a welcome development, but I wonder why UK has turned deaf ears and blind eyes on Fulani Herdsmen killing menace.