The National Broadcasting Commission has asked the Department of State Security and the Nigeria Police Force to arrest those behind the operations of a pirate radio claiming to be ‘ Radio Biafra ’ .
In a statement on Monday , the NBC, which is the regulator of broadcast stations in the country, said it jammed the signals the pirate radio in parts of Lagos State .
The statement partly read , “ The National Broadcasting Commission has jammed the signals of a Pirate Radio claiming to be ‘ Radio Biafra ’ in most parts of Lagos . The illegal radio which broadcast incendiary messages is notorious for spewing fake , inflammatory and incendiary contents .
“ The Department of State Security and the Nigerian Police have been requested to bring the culprits behind this illegality to book . ”
The Biafra movement is associated with secessionist groups including the Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Biafra led by Nnamdi Kanu. The Federal Government had designated IPOB as a terrorist organisation in September 2017.
