The Federal Government has accused members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra of using fake videos of mass killings, harvested f...
The Federal
Government has accused members of the outlawed Indigenous People of
Biafra of using fake videos of mass killings, harvested from other parts
of Africa and doctored to look current, to mislead the international
community and win their support.
The Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this when he
addressed Online Publishers in Lagos on Monday.
He alleged that
IPOB was planning to externalise the struggle, saying that its members
had been writing to the government and national parliaments of some
western nations to give the impression that they were being victimized.
He said, ”We must
warn the nation against IPOB’s next line of action, which is to
externalise their lies and propaganda. Now they are writing to the
governments and the national parliaments of some Western nations to give
the impression that they are victims of an ethno-sectarian
violence orchestrated by the government, hence they need protection.
”Some of the tools that have been employed by IPOB include blatant
lies and cheap propaganda, and the medium of choice for the organization
is the social media.violence orchestrated by the government, hence they need protection.
“IPOB has
harvested gory videos and pictures from other lands and the distant
past, which they are now circulating via the social media, to deceive
the international community into believing that the people of the
South-East are being subjected to state-sponsored, ethno-religious
violence.
”Such videos,
which have very high emotive quotient, are circulating on the social
media as we speak. These videos are doctored to make them look current.
They are fake.”
Mohammed said some
ill-informed foreign individuals were already trumpeting IPOB’s lies
and propaganda and even alleging genocide.
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