Red Alert! former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.)Calls For The Arrest Of Asari Dokubo Arrested!
A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), has called for the arrest of an ex-Niger Delta
militants, including Mujahideen Dokubo-Asari and Government
Ekpudomenowei (akaTompolo) for threatening to declare
war against the nation if President Goodluck loses the February 14 election.
Danjuma,
who described the threat as “unguarded and reckless,” warned that “miscreants”
must not be allowed to hold the country by the jugular.
Dokubo-Asari,
had at a meeting on Friday at the Bayelsa State Government House, Yenagoa,
urged an end to what he termed, the intimidation of the Ijaw by other
Nigerians.
“For
every Goliath, God created a David. For every Pharaoh, there is a Moses. We are
going to war. Every one of you should go and fortify yourself,” he said.
At the
meeting were Governor Seriake Dickson, Ekpudomenowei, Victor Ebikabowei (aka
Boy Loaf), the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta
Affairs, Kingsley Kuku and the President General, the Ijaw Youth
Council, Udengs Eradiri.
Boyloaf
also said at the meeting that if the North succeeded in regaining power on
February 14, the people of the Niger Delta would take their oil
back.
However,
Danjuma while inaugurating the Kwankwasiyya City alongside Kano
State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Wednesday wondered why Dokubo-Asari and
Ebikabowei were heating up the polity.
He
reminded them that since Nigeria and its resources belonged to
everyone, no one must hold the government to ransom.
The
former Defence minister, therefore, urged the necessary government agencies to
immediately arrest the ex-militants.
“You
should arrest Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Boyloaf and other Niger Delta militants
for making reckless statements, which in any way does not mean keeping Nigeria
as one entity. They create a war situation.
“Those
were reckless statements coming from irresponsible individuals; they should be
condemned and arrested immediately,” he said.
In a
situation like this, the issue of entrenching peace in the country is what is
needed most. We should not allow some miscreants to hold us to ransom,” he
said.
Danjuma,
who served as a Defence minister during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration,
added, “Nigeria belongs to everybody and we must do everything
possible to safeguard her unity.”
He also
asked politicians to stop making utterances capable of overheating the polity.
The
former minister said, “As we are approaching election time, we must strive to
ensure that important issues are thoroughly discussed but not personalities. We
want to have a perfect election where no one would have an axe to grind with
anybody.
“Once
politicians base their campaigns on issues not personalities and avoid anything
capable of causing disaffection, I am confident that we would have foul-free
elections.”
He
commended Kwankwaso for providing physical infrastructure in the last four
years and described the Kwankwasiyya City as one of the modern edifices in the
current democratic dispensation.
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