A Niger Delta liberation group, Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters of Niger Delta (SEFFND) has condemned the continuous verbal attacks on the personality and constant call for the arrest of its leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, by Ibo Lawyers Association ILA, HURIWA and Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, saying such actions will throw the Niger Delta region into a state of crisis.
This was contained in a statement signed and issued in Yenagoa by the General Commanding Officer of the group, Agadagba River Don, saying that Asari Dokubo only speaks the truth and warned groups attacking his personality to desist from the act, adding that else they will be left with no other option than to retaliate in like manner.
According to him, the groups attacking Dokubo have watched the unknown gunmen maim, kill and destroy lives and properties of fellow Igbos on daily basis without finding any solution to the bloodbath, a situation which has stopped the movement of persons and goods, due to the unlawful sit-at-home order in the entire South East region of the country.
The Niger Delta liberation group also debunked news making the rounds that Dokubo Asari was the brain behind the delay and non-renewal of the multi-million dollars pipeline surveillance contract job the Mohammadu Buhari led administration awarded to Chief Government Ekpemupolo (AKA Tompolo).
The statement reads in part, “The Niger Delta dreaded Militant group, Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters of Niger Delta, SEFFND, warn the Ibo Lawyers Association ILA, HURIWA, Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and other disgruntled personalities to forthwith desist from attacking the well respected leader of the Niger Delta and freedom fighter, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari.
“We will not allow these diminishing insults, blackmail and name dropping by the Ibo Lawyers Association ILA, HURIWA, Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and other disgruntled personalities to go on with this demeaning insensitive statements published on pages of newspapers and online media space any longer and we will not hesitate to go after them if they fail to desist from this act, as we have placed our men across their zone.
“It is really disheartening for this groups to attack Asari Dokubo while the entire South East has been a zone of killing and kidnapping by the proscribed terrorists group called IPOB, and Eastern Security Network, ESN, which have made life unbearable for the people that have killed thousands of their people.
“The proscribed IPOB group have unleashed terror and horror on the people under the guise of fighting for an unachievable and laughable independence agitation, and no call for the arrest of Asari Dokubo will yield any fruit, and it is just a mere and sheer waste of time.
“We unequivocally warn members of the ILA, HURIWA and Secretary General of the Ohaneze Ndigbo with other jobless fellows to desist from making frivolous, careless provocative, inciting statements garnished with falsehood against our revered leader in the Niger Delta, the face of the struggle of the emancipation of the Niger Delta people, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, who is a well respected traditional titled holder in Kalabari kingdom, and a pan Nigerian elder statesman.
“ILA, HURIWA and some group of disgruntled elements of personalities are hiding from the truth and unnecessarily heating up the polity for their selfish gains in order to just attract cheap popularity from the media space by attacking Dokubo Asari.
“These are enemies of the Nigerian State, the peaceful coexistence and stability of the country. Therefore, call on the security agencies not to turn their eyes from ILA, HURIWA, Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and some disgruntled elements because that was how the proscribed IPOB and the criminal ESN group started in our eyes.
“We make it clear to the general public that the respected National Leader of the Niger Delta and the face of the struggle for the emancipation of the oil rich people of the Niger Delta region, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, does not have any hand in whatever reason that might have led to the delay and non-renewal of the said multi million Dollar Trans Niger Pipeline, TNP, surveillance contract being handled and operated by Tantita Security Services owned by the former Militant leader of Niger Delta, popularly known as Tompolo.”
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