Asari Dokubo – I Owe Nobody An Apology For Being A Biafran, Says Those Who Incarcerated Kanu’ll Never Go Unpunished
Asari Dokubo – I Owe Nobody An Apology For
Being A Biafran, Says Those Who Incarcerated Kanu’ll Never Go Unpunished
Former President of
the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, and founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer
Front, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has once again made it known to the
world that his identity is that of a Biafran and not a Nigerian, adding that it
is wrong for anybody to ask him whether he is a Biafran.
He reiterated his
Biafran identity Tuesday, in an open interaction with the host and Deputy
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor on
Radio Biafra London, when the latter asked him if he is a Biafran and if he
supports the restoration of Biafra as championed by the IPOB leader, Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu.
Asari-Dokubo who has
once declared that contrary to the perception in most quarters that the name
“Biafra” which was adopted by the then breakaway Eastern region is Igbo, the
phrase is Ijaw, announced on Radio Biafra that he owes no one any apology or
explanation for being a Biafran.
He said: “It is wrong
for anybody to ask me whether I am a Biafran; it’s like asking me whether I am
Dokubo Asari. I have said it over and over again and I’ll continue to say it
that Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari is a Biafran.
“I have no apology to
give to anybody. I have no explanation to give to anybody. I don’t want to
curry favours from anybody. I don’t want anything from anybody. I am a Biafran
and that’s what I am. I have proclaimed up to the Supreme Court of the Nigerian
state that I am not a Nigerian.”
The Niger Delta leader
also reiterated his support and commitment to the Biafran struggle of which
Nnamdi Kanu is currently being detained, saying that it is a necessary
sacrifice one has to make in order to regain the independence of his
motherland.
“For our brother Kanu
that is in prison, it is a necessary sacrifice that some of us must make for
the independence of our motherland. He must make the sacrifice and one day, we
will all, our brother will reap the benefits of his sacrifice.
“Those who have
wrongfully incarcerated, deprived him of his rights and privileges, deprived
him of his dignity, will never go unpunished; they’ll be compensated for what
they have done to him in full measure.
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