UK has clarified reports that it listed IPOB as a terrorist group.
Glamtush reports that the United Kingdom has debunked news reports that it has branded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation.
This online news platform understands that the British High Commission in Abuja made the clarification in a statement on Friday night.
However, shortly after the UK mission issued the statement, the Nigerian government, relying on the apparently inaccurate report of the UK prescribing IPOB as a terrorist group, released a statement welcoming the decision.
“Nigeria welcomes the decision by the United Kingdom to proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group,” a tweet from the official Nigerian government twitter handle read.
“The violent secessionist organisation has long been proscribed as such in Nigeria where it carries out the majority of its murderous activities.”