The British High Commission, Abuja has described as inaccurate, a report circulating in the media and online that the UK government has added the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) to the UK’s list of terrorist group banned in the UK
The High Commission in a statement signed by the Senior communications and public diplomacy officer, Tinuke Akande-Alegbe affirms that IPOB is not a proscribed organisation in the UK
It also says the inaccurate information comes from a revised country policy and information publication released on the 23th of April 2022
The commission said that the earlier publication acknowledged that the Nigerian government has proscribed IPOB as a terrorists organisation but also said that some members of the group reportedly using violence against the State and members of the public and have so committed human rights abuses must not be granted protection
The British government added that ‘all asylum and human rights claims made in the UK are considered in their individual facts in accordance with the obligations under the UN Refugee convention and European convention on human Rights.’
