Days after the broadcast equipment of Radio Biafra was dismantled and
the arrest of some of its operators by the combined forces of the
National Broadcasting Commission and the Department of State Security,
the illegal radio station is still streaming on the Internet.
This was confirmed by the Director of Public Affairs at NBC, Mr. Awwalu Salihu, on Tuesday.
Salihu said the agency was unable to dismantle the online broadcasting
platform of Radio Biafra “because the protocol for doing so is very
long”.
He said, “I can confirm to you that they are still broadcasting through
the Internet. This is because the protocol for bringing down Internet
broadcast is a long one. But the process for bringing it down has
started”.
Giving details on the operation of the terrestrial version of the radio
station, the NBC spokesman explained that while it lasted, its broadcast
was received in major cities in the South-East, including Enugu,
Owerri, Aba as well as Port Harcourt.
According to him, while the station appropriated a frequency that it was
never authorized to use, it also jumped on the frequency of licensed
stations every time they closed broadcast for the day.
Describing the station as a pirate radio, Salisu added that the broadcast was being treated as a breach of national security.
He, however, was silent on when the operators of the station arrested by the DSS would be charged to court.
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