{"id":544,"date":"2021-09-03T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/2021\/09\/03\/ipob-members-are-threatening-to-kill-me-bbc-igbo-reporter-cries-out-photo\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:45:00","slug":"ipob-members-are-threatening-to-kill-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/ipob-members-are-threatening-to-kill-me\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOB Members Are Threatening To Kill Me \u2013 BBC Igbo Reporter Cries Out (Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">  <a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-6zR-64BD94c\/YTJDMR-OSaI\/AAAAAAAAArk\/DsmM3SBlw0YJGI6VqmIIRvZ647HT0V8AQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/1630683924250650-0.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\">    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-6zR-64BD94c\/YTJDMR-OSaI\/AAAAAAAAArk\/DsmM3SBlw0YJGI6VqmIIRvZ647HT0V8AQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/1630683924250650-0.png\" width=\"400\" \/>  <\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>An Igbo reporter with the British Broadcasting Corporation has cried out for help.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Obiejesi Chukwunaeme Kingsley claimed that some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are after his life because he was reporting what they did not like.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kingsley disclosed this on his Facebook page on Thursday adding that he was familiar with such death threats being a journalist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Though he did not mention the pro-Biafra separatist group by its name, he indicated by what the members use which is \u2018Umu Chineke.\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kingsley wrote, \u201cAs a journalist working with BBC Igbo Service, I am not new to death threats. Myself and my colleagues get death threats on a daily basis. Sometimes it hurts, but most times I laugh it off.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe interesting thing is that the people that threaten to kill me and my colleagues, are the same people that refer to themselves as \u201c\u1ee4m\u1ee5 Chineke\u201d or \u201c\u1ee5m\u1ee5 Chukwu okike Abiama\u201d. Is it not funny?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am not allowed to join issues with these death mongers, but whenever I see the threats, I reply in my heart: \u201cMy name is Chukwunaeme. Ejir\u1ecd \u1ecdnw\u1ee5 eyi m egwu.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Igbo reporter with the British Broadcasting Corporation has cried out for help. Obiejesi Chukwunaeme Kingsley claimed that some members of the Indigenous People of &#8230; <a title=\"IPOB Members Are Threatening To Kill Me \u2013 BBC Igbo Reporter Cries Out (Photo)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/ipob-members-are-threatening-to-kill-me\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about IPOB Members Are Threatening To Kill Me \u2013 BBC Igbo Reporter Cries Out (Photo)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}