Today's headlines writes '...FRCN takes over Radio Biafra.....'
Personally I believe it is yet another miscalculation and waste of public funds chasing Biafran News media and apparatus the way we read the NSA ,DSS and other government Security agencies are going about it.
It is late,antiquated method and the world has evolved differently that to do the job they intend doing they must apply different tactics and methods. It will be a great task because the Biafran media since 1967 has some peculiar characteristics :
It is traditionally 'grass rooted' and backed by over flowing human resources: people with high passion, professionalism,eloquent and convictions. Okoko Ndem for those who remember his war reports and propaganda ( radio Biafra 1967 to 1970) is still to be rivalled in the world in war propaganda reports. The bitter truth is that Biafran Information network has always been a step ahead of the FGN media.
The Biafran media as we see daily, talks to peoples heart through some historical researches which is now also getting into the fabrics of the whole Nigeria and Africa. They have even gone a step ahead having programs Hausa language.
They seem to have finances and donors (Biafrans and non Biafrans) which enable them to switch from one satellite service to the other 'anytime the FGN BRIBES hosts satellites' the said .( on this note one wonders why the govt. can provide resources to buy off satellite services as to stop Biafra but cannot spend any money to improve her own coverage).
Technologically, they boast of having some of the smartest brains and in one of their fora they warned anyone 'hunting them' to stop or they might be provoked into a 'technological warfare' . Someone even boasted being able to black out or shut down FRCN and NTA, (could be termed cyber terror) though we all know Biafran and IPOB propaganda/ threats are always mega. However, I wouldn't advise the FRCN to try this on their flesh ahha.
I would personally suggest that other avenue to contain their news (Fake and real) should be sort and not the said provocative assigning of their frequency to an FRCN Hausa program .
Charles OC