After a few months’ hiatus, there are indications that a pirate radio station, Radio Biafra, will resume activities on Sunday November 12.
The radio station is the mouthpiece of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had on September 20 granted an order declaring IPOB as a terrorist organisation.
The order, which followed a motion filed by the filed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, also proscribed the existence of IPOB throughout Nigeria, with particular attention to the South-East and South-South regions.
Nnamdi Kanu and top leaders of the group went into hiding in the wake of the court order and military crackdown.
But sources told DAILY NIGERIAN that the pirate radio would now broadcast from London, England, to escape the reach of Nigeria’s security agencies “who will track it down without much effort if it was based in Nigeria.”
Top security sources told DAILY NIGERIAN that the information circulating within the IBOP circle recently has pointed to the feverish plans and concerted efforts to reactivate the Radio Biafra and make its voice heard again to prove that the despite the security agencies’ show of strength recently during the Operation Python Dance and the like, that IPOB is not as dead as it appears.
“It can now be stated authoritatively because it has been fully and infallibly confirmed that the Radio Biafra will from Sunday be on air from 6 am to 7 am on 7240 kilohaz, 41 metre band, short wave and in the evenings from 8pm to 9pm on 11530 kilohaz on 25 metre band.
“It remains to be seen if the hide and seek game between IPOB and the Radio Biafra on one hand and the Nigerian security agencies on the other hand will resume and the Nigerian government may try to get the UK to shut down the radio through diplomatic means,” added the the inside source.
