The Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters of Niger Delta, SEFFND, a militant group in the Niger Delta, has warned Igbo groups to cease further attacks on Niger Delta leader and freedom fighter, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari.
It specifically mentioned the Ibo Lawyers Association, ILA, the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, and the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA.
Leader of the militant group, Agadagba I, aka River Don, and other commanders, in a joint statement, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said: “We will not allow the Ibo Lawyers Association ILA, HURIWA, Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, and other disgruntled personalities to go on with these demeaning insults, blackmail, and name dropping published on pages of newspapers and online media space any longer.”
“It is really disheartening for these groups to attack Dokubo-Asari while the entire South-East has been a zone of killing and kidnapping by the proscribed terrorist groups called the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Eastern Security Network, ESN, which have made life unbearable for the people, killing thousands of their people.
“The proscribed IPOB group has 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 Dokubo–Asari will yield any fruit, as it is just a sheer waste of time.
“We unequivocally warn members of the ILA, HURIWA, and others to desist from making frivolous, careless, provocative, inciting statements garnished with falsehood against our revered leader in the Niger Delta, and the face of the struggle of the emancipation of the Niger Delta people, Alhaji Dokubo Asari. a well-respected traditional title holder in the Kalabari Kingdom, and a pan -Nigerian leader.
“Disgruntled elements are hiding from the truth and unnecessarily heating the polity for their selfish gains in order to attract cheap popularity from the media space by attacking Dokubo- Asari.
“We, therefore, call on the security agencies not to turn their eyes from ILA, HURIWA, the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, and some disgruntled elements because this was how the proscribed IPOB and the ESN group started.”
Meanwhile, the dreaded Supreme Egbesu Freedom Fighters has debunked news making the rounds that Dokubo Asari was the brain behind the delay and non-renewal of the multi million dollar pipeline surveillance contract job the Buhari administration awarded to Chief Government Ekpemupolo (AKA Tompolo).
“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”, they said.
The militant group warned those who are peddling false informations and trying to drag Dokubo Asari name to the mud over the pipeline surveillance contract Job in other to gain favour before the former handlers should stop henceforth, and they have been warned.
The group state that Dokubo Asari is a Nigerian and is a bonafide Niger Deltan who has been in the forefront in the struggle for the emancipation of the Niger Delta people and a firm supporter of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency in the region, has the right to also bid for such pipeline surveillance contract if he wishes to and we don’t see any offence or sacrilege to that effect.”
