Radio Biafra will go
live in America from Sunday, Leonard Anemene, a leader of the organisation,
said in a statement issued on Friday.
Anemene said but for some challenges, the project
would have been out earlier.
He did not say the exact location where the
station will be operating from.
“On the 12th of January 2017, the leadership of
IPOB in unison with the leader, deputy leader and the Directorate of State
(DOS), decided to expand the broadcasting services of the Biafran struggle
through the creation of a new broadcasting service in the Americas,” he said.
“So, a live broadcast of Radio Biafra
International (RBi) from the Americas has been imminent for a very long time
now but was delayed due to logistic bottlenecks.
“However, we are proud to announce to you all
today, that we are going live on air on Sunday, the 19th of March, 2017 with a
maiden broadcast, starting from 10.00 am Biafra time.”
In July, the National
Broadcasting Commission (NBC) jammed Radio Biafra signals as a result of inciting messages
transmitted by the station.
“Right now the signals from radio Biafra have
been jammed successfully by the NBC,” she had told state house correspondents
in Abuja.
“The commission is also working with security
agencies to get those that are behind that radio because it is an illegal
radio. It is not licensed by anybody to be on the airwave in Nigeria.”
But dismissing the claim, the station said the
federal government cannot silence it.
“NBC lied to their master. Radio Biafra is live
in BiafraLand. They cannot even ban our local station, do they even know we
also transmit via satellite and online as well,” the group said in a statement.
Nnamdi Kanu, a director of the station, is
currently in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). Last month, a court ruled that he should be tried
for treason.
-The Cable
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