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FG Threatens YouTube, Reveals How IPOB Uses The Channel |SEE FRESH ORDERS

Afnews Editor

Aug 04, 2022

The Nigerian Government has urged Google to shut down the YouTube channels belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

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Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, anchored its call on the fact that IPOB is a proscribed organization, NAN reports.

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Mohammed made the call while receiving a team of Google officials on Thursday in Abuja.

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He listed such channels to include Biafra Digest TV, Umu Biafra TV, Biafra Digest, and Asa Biafra TV.

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The minister lamented that some of these channels use local languages and dialects during their broadcast to evade being censored.

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"Your platform is a platform of choice for IPOB, a proscribed terrorist group.

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"We implore you not to make your platform available to them for their acts of violence and destabilization.

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"We hope you will cooperate with us as well as our security agencies in this direction,ÔÇØ he said.

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