Illegal Firearms: Disarm, Arrest Asari Dokubo Now – HURIWA Tells DSS, Others
Civil rights advocacy group on the aegis of ‘Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA)’, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, stressed the urgent need for Mujahid Asari Dokubo, former Niger Delta agitator to be disarmed and arrested following his illegal possession of fire arms and confession in a recent viral video about how Igbos are dying.
It specifically said that it would amount to hypocrisy of the highest order for the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force to pretend not to have seen a viral video of former Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari Dokubo brandishing multiple AK-47 rifles.
HURIWA therefore challenged the DSS, to as a matter of national importance and security concerns, effect the immediate arrest of Asari Dokubo, for unlawful possession of assault rifles and threat to the lives and property of people in the country.
The human rights advocacy group noted that in the trending video, Asari Dokubo threatened to kill Igbos because they supported Labour Party’s Peter Obi in the February 25, 2023 presidential poll against the ex-militant’s preferred candidate in the person of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA noted that Asari Dokubo in broad daylight brandished AK-47 rifles as seen in the viral video which has been verified as authentic by media houses, saying that the ex-militant should be immediately arrested for gunrunning and threating to kill the Igbo people.
HURIWA said that Asari Dokubo, who recently met with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, also urged the President not to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
It further said; “The mortal hatred of Asari Dokubo against the people of the South-East and Nnamdi Kanu is apparent for all to see. The latest evidence in his despicable action is that of a viral video where he boldly threatened to kill Igbos using his illegally acquired AK-47 rifles which he also brandished in the video out there.
“The security agencies and their new bosses should set to work immediately and arrest the ex-militant for instigating his men in the creeks to kill and abduct Igbos.
“Asari Dokubo needs to be investigated to ascertain if he is the brain behind the so-called unknown gunmen phenomenon in the South-East because he recently also confirmed that Muhammadu Buhari gave him a military contract as head of a mercenary group to wipe out armed bandits.
“Dokubo and his mercenary group threatened Nigeria’s sovereignty like the Wagner group did in Russia,” it said.
