Asari Dokubo Explodes Again

*Wants Maurice Iwu, Nuhu Ribadu Arrested, Prosecuted

The leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for his role as an accomplice to former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in the 2007 election. Asari who was speaking in Abuja to a select group of journalists inside his Abuja home was in his usual vituperative candour when asked on the recent outcry against the posting of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to the NIPPS for a routine course, as he thundered "I don't understand the hue and cry about Ribadu's posting, as far as I am concerned Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Maurice Iwu, Sunday Ehindeiro (former IG of Police) should be arrested and prosecuted for their appalling roles in the 2007 election, together with their grandmaster chief Olusegun Obasanjo."The blood of all those that lost their lives during the 2007election will not rest until these people are tried and executed. Imagine the number of elections that are being annulled in several parts of the country just because Ribadu was doing his master’s (OBJ) bidding and propped up a fake corruption list for Maurice Iwu to capitalize on and disqualify all the potential threats to all Obasanjo's candidates in that election` On the situation in Rivers State as regards Ateke Tom and the governor, Chibuike Amaechi, he thundered "who made Amaechi the governor of River State, as far as I am concerned Amaechi is at best the Supreme Court governor of River State, because what was expected, like it is obtained in other similar situations was for the court to declare a fresh election with Amaechi as the candidate of the PDP but they chose to impose him on the people of River state" On Ateke Tom, "I think I would have loved to sympathize with him, if not that he fought back in a wrong way. Why should you kill innocent people because of a provocation from a governor. Ateke Tom reacted wrongly especially after he had embraced peace and denounced such activities; I was not impressed by that act" Does he still believe that the judiciary is the last hope for the common man"?"Which common man? Is it not the same judiciary that condemned Saro Wiwa? Was it not the same judiciary that was sent on a mercenary by Obasanjo when I was falsely accused of plotting to over throw the government, an event they claimed took place in Benin, but I was taken to Abuja for trial, outside the jurisdiction of where the event was purported to have taken place, is it not the same judiciary? That kind of judiciary that imposes a governor on a people can not give any hope to that people". Asked what has inspired him to this struggle and if he was going to quit, he was quick to say "as a little boy growing up with my grandmother, I read about Isaac Boro and I remember telling people that I would like to be like him, he was a major source of inspiration for me. Another person was Nelson Mandela of South Africa his anti-apartheid struggle really impressed me a lot. The truth is that I cannot quit this struggle, like I use to tell some of my brothers in the struggle, I am not in this because I lack any of the basic necessities of life. My parents were not very rich but we were not poor either. I had all I needed as a young growing boy. I entered the struggle because of the injustice in the land against my people and the struggle has brought me fame and fortune because I did not sell out like some of my colleagues, I enjoy enormous goodwill from people I had not met before just because they believe in the cause I am fighting. So why should I abandon the struggle" On what he does aside the struggle, Asari said, he is a trader who trades in books and is into import and export and is currently planning to establish the first purely automobile polytechnic in Nigeria.