Federal Government to reveal account details of IPOB sponsors

The Federal Government of Nigeria will be giving the French Government account details of the sponsors of terrorist group, IPOB, Punch reports.

The Nigerian Government had through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that France was the headquarters of IPOB’s funding.

But the European country on Thursday said it had no knowledge of IPOB’s presence in France.

But a very senior government official said the FG had reached out to France, explaining that it did not accuse the country of being the sponsors of Biafra but that a large transfer of funds were made regularly from France to IPOB in Nigeria.

It was learnt that the FG had asked the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit and the Central Bank of Nigeria to compile the needed information on the sponsors and it hand it over to the French government.

According to the government other countries from which IPOB also received huge cash inflows include: Turkey, Senegal, Malaysia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and the United States.