Aka Ikenga Backs Radio Biafra, Warns FG Against Dictatorship
By Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos
Igbo Think Tank, Aka Ikenga on Wednesday
said the federal government should desist from acts capable of overheating the polity over the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra.
While throwing its weight behind the operation of the radio station, President of the group, Goddy Uwazurike in a chat with Daily Independent, said the federal government through its action wants to suppress freedom of information while hiding under the guise of fighting secession.
He said it was the same path the late dictator,
Sani Abacha threaded when he tried unsuccessfully to stop Radio Kudirat from
operating in the days of NADECO political
struggle against military dictatorship.
According to Uwazurike “I think the federal government should draw a line between suppression of opinion and fighting what it perceived as secession. Freedom to hold views different from government’s own and freedom to disseminate such views and receive
information are fundamental human rights”.
” In the world over, anyone arresting people for operating radio and news media has always ended up being the loser because the world is in favour of protection of Freedom of Information, and not its restriction”.
“We therefore, are saying that the federal
government is overheating the polity with the arrest of its Director, Nnamdi Kanu. In the South East, the major problem there is not Radio Biafra but preponderance of kidnappers and inability of the security agencies to curtail their activities”.
” We don’t see Radio Biafra as a threat to the
peace, unity and security of Nigeria. Radio Kudirat operated here for years. The then
government of late Sani Abacha went after
them and we all condemned it. So, why won’t we condemn those going after Radio Biafra?
Wole Soyinka was in charge of Radio Kudirat
with Kayode Fayemi”.
“So if today, Fayemi is a Minister in the government that is trying to suppress Radio Biafra, it just doesn’t make sense. We are saying they should let Radio Biafra be and stop the persecution of Nnamdi Kanu. It doesn’t make sense” he said.
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