President Buhari Asks US, UK And Others To Ban IPOB

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the United States of America, United Kingdom and other developed nations and western allies to proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organization. He made the remarks in an interview with Bloomberg. President Muhammadu Buhari was responding to a question about his administration record on fighting insecurity and corruption.

According to President Muhammadu Buhari, the country is safer than he met it in 2015 and proscribing IPOB, a group seeking secession of parts of Southern Nigeria, will improve the situation.

According to his words; “We leave Nigeria in a far better place than we found it,” the President said. “Corruption is less hidden for Nigerians feel empowered to report it without fear, while money is returned; terrorists no longer hold any territory in Nigeria, and their leaders are deceased; and vast infrastructure development sets the country on course for sustainable and equitable growth.

“In 2015, Boko Haram held territory the size of Belgium within the borders of Nigeria. Today they are close to extinct as a military force. The leader of ISWAP was eliminated by a Nigerian Airforce airstrike in March this year. The jets acquired from the US and intelligence shared by British was not provided to previous administrations and stand as testament to renewed trust re-built between Nigeria and our traditional western allies under my government.

“We urge those same international partners to take additional steps costing them nothing, by proscribing another group IPOB as a terrorist organization. Their leadership enjoys safe haven in the West, broadcasting hate speech into Nigeria from London, spending millions lobbying members of the US Congress, and freely using international financial networks to arm agitators on the ground. This must stop,” President Muhammadu Buhari stated.