Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has signed an executive order to reinforce the ban on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its activities in the state.
According to a statement by his media aide Kelvin Ebiri, Mr Wike made a broadcast on Wednesday night in Port Harcourt and maintained that Rivers remains the home to all tribes and ethnic nationalities.
Wike said his administration would neither accept nor allow any individual or group to endanger lives and property under any guise.
He said: “The state government is opposed to the presence and activities of the legally-proscribed and anarchic IPOB and whatever it stands for in Rivers State.
“And so, let it be understood that we have nothing against all or any specific tribe and will continue to live in peace with people of all other tribal extractions residing or doing business in Rivers State.
“But we have everything against the presence and activities of the legally-proscribed IPOB and whatever that group stands for in Rivers State.
“This is clearly a terrorist group which existence, creed, mission and activities are strongly denounced even by the Government and peoples of South-Eastern States of the country.
“I have, therefore, signed the executive order to reinforce the total ban on IPOB and its activities in Rivers State or any part thereof and nothing will stop us from enforcing this ban in its entirety.”
He, however, said that the curfew in Oyigbo Local Government Area will remain in force until further notice.
