The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has launched a Hausa-language radio service.
The group called the service “Radio Nigeria Hausa Service.”
The service, according to a Thursday statement by IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful, will help spread the “message of liberation to the oppressed” indigenous northerners.
According to the statement, the maiden daily broadcast of the service would hit the airwaves on Saturday, January, 6, at 7pm Nigerian time.
“The broadcast will have the widest coverage of any radio signal in Africa.
“It will be received all over West, East and Southern Africa. Every Hausa speaking community in Africa will be able to receive it.
“In our opinion, we feel it has become imperative to educate the poor masses of northern Nigeria. The ruling class cleverly enslaved and impoverished ethnic populations of the north by keeping vital information and knowledge away from them.
“This information deficit is what Radio Nigeria Hausa Service has come to remedy,” Powerful said.
The group said the service would help dispel the notion that IPOB is Biafra-centric and help prove that the group is “genuinely concerned about the plight of all oppressed people in Nigeria.”
“Regardless of ethnicity, religion or creed, IPOB is pursuing an agenda of freedom for all,” the statement further read.
Powerful noted that those expecting IPOB to lose focus and die off because of the absence of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, should prepare for an “almighty shock”.
“Our message is very simple, 2018 will be like no other in the history of Nigeria and will prove to be the year of liberation for those brave enough to confront the evil that Nigeria has become in the lives of millions of people.”
“This move today is the beginning of a mass revolution against our oppressors that will spread outside the borders of Biafraland.
“Every Hausa speaking northerner is advised to tune into 15110 KHz every night at 7PM, starting from this Saturday 6 January 2018, to be educated in order to be liberated.”