NIGERIAN GOVT WORRIED ABOUT IPOB'S INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE BIAFRA

Nigerian Government is worried over the international campaign against her by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, that the entire Biafra and Ndigbo especially are being marginalised and denied their human rights in the country. Reports in the international media about massive killings of Nigerian soldiers in the Northeast by Boko Haram insurgents, with the recent report in the New York Times about the ongoings in the theatre of war as example. 
        It was against this backdrop that the report by the Senate Committee Chairman on Defence, Senator Ali Ndume, that 487 Nigerian soldiers were buried in one military cemetery in Borno State, was said to have ruffled feathers within the government. And that a "hostile propaganda" is being carried out within and outside the country by IPOB and her leadership that Biafrans are being disenfranchised was aimed at hurting the image of the administration and asked the relevant government agencies within Nigeria to articulate a robust narrative or propagada that could counter it, 
        The National Intelligence Community, which deliberated on the activities of Nnamdi Kanu, in both United Kingdom and Geneva," where he reportedly traveled to raise awareness over the plight of Biafrans frowned at IPOB's request to his various audiences to raise awareness on the plight of Biafrans in the media and schools in their member countries. The leader of the group, Nnamdi Kanu on September 10, 2019, briefed one Web Dance of the British Labour Party and a member of the European Union, EU, parliament alleging that the people of Biafra were denied their fundamental human rights and disenfranchised by the Nigerian government. 
          He requested the Union to assist in raising awareness on the plight Biafrans in the media and schools in member countries and he also visited the United Nations Office in Geneva, UNOG, on September 17, 2019, as part of the effort to mobilise support and create awareness on the groups restoration agenda to the international community. He also met members of IPOB in Geneva and other EU states in front of the UN building, his visit coincided with the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council which held from September 9 to September 27, 2019. 
           It is recommended that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOFA, Ministry of Information and Culture, MOIC, and the National Orientation Agency, NOA, should articulate and implement robust counter narrative to  IPOB's propaganda. Meanwhile Ministry of Defence,  also raised alarm over negative reports about the counter insurgency campaign in the northeast by the international media, and called for the need to intensify effort to sensitise relevant stakeholders to gain popular support for the ongoing counter insurgency operations in the area and harp on the need to intensify effort to sensitise relevant stakeholders to gain popular support for  operation in the north east," also asked the relevant government agencies and stakeholders to articulate efforts that could present the correct situation to the general public. 
          According to the ministry, the New York Times, NYT, published a story on the on going operation in the north east theater alleging low troops morale, poor equipment, and government lack of will power to prosecute the war and sabotage