Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused Facebook and the Federal Government of colluding to hinder his followers from viewing his social media posts.
In a statement he signed on Sunday, Mr Kanu also alleged that Facebook was diverting some of his followers to fake accounts opened in his name, to sabotage IPOB’s goal of seccession.
According to him, the fake accounts have been allowed to flourish despite severally raising alarm to the company’s Nigeria office.
“I wish to apologise to my followers on Facebook for the Nigerian government sponsored attack on my page with the help of corrupt Facebook local staff based in Lagos,” he said.
“Facebook Nigeria in collusion with the Nigerian government is removing my followers and reducing the reactions to my post in an effort to demoralise our activist base and give the misleading impression that not many people are interested in exposing the ills of the totalitarian Fulani APC regime and Biafra restoration.
“Facebook is actively preventing the general public from accessing the truthful messages that I publish.
“Tactfully, they are directing my followers to numerous fake ‘Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’ Facebook page cloned by Nigeria’s secret police, DSS with the help of Facebook Nigeria in an effort to defraud the public and control the narrative.”
Kanu said that “Radio Biafra Facebook page and many frontline IPOB activists have also been experiencing this pattern of attack for many months now.”
He added: “This shameful practice by Facebook Nigeria to allow the suppression of truth and free speech is indirectly supporting state-sponsored terrorism in Nigeria.
“IPOB made an official complaint to Facebook headquarters in California USA, and we expect the management to clear its reputation, and desist from this shameful act.”
