A Nigerian news paper, The Nation news paper reported that a security source says an intelligence discovery of a secret bank account funded by Nigerians to pilot the affairs of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The source was quoted as saying most of the people funding the agitators are Nigerians living home and abroad which account discovered is in Paris.
The source said:
"Intelligence gathering has led to the discovery of an account in Paris into which some Nigerians in the Diaspora remit funds to support IPOB.
"From the said account, funds were being drawn for the activities of IPOB at home and abroad. The relevant security agencies did a thorough job and provided incontrovertible evidence on the basis of which the government proscribed the terrorist organization.
"These Nigerians in the Diaspora are using France as a clearing house. Investigations also confirmed inflows into the account from Holland, Hungary, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Turkey, Singapore and other parts of Europe.
"In fact, a football tournament was recently organized in Senegal to raise funds for IPOB. As a matter of fact, the account is being used to get money from a lot of people in the Diaspora.
"What many Nigerians did not know is that the Minister of Information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was talking on the basis of credible intelligence report.
"But with the cooperation by the international community, especially the relevant countries, we will soon get the list of all the people remitting funds into the account in Paris."
