By Kazeem Ugbodaga
Former Niger Delta warlord, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has given reason why President Bola Tinubu must not release detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Asari-Dokubo, who spoke with newsmen after meeting with Tinubu in Abuja on Friday, alleged that Kanu is a criminal and must be allowed to face the law.
He alleged that during #EndSARS, Kanu was walking free and poured petrol on the flames of #EndSARS.
According to him, now that he had been caught, “what of the people who have died? This is a criminal. He should face the law.”
Asari-Dokubo argued that releasing Kanu is like rewarding criminality and rewarding gruesome murder of innocent people.
“He should face the law for the actions and instigations he has carried out,” he said.
He also accused the military of being at the centre of oil theft in the Niger Delta.
“We have to make this very clear to the Nigerian public that 99 per cent of oil theft can be traced to the Nigerian military, the Army and the Navy especially,” he stated.
Asari-Dokubo added that he and others in the Niger Delta had assured the President that there would be zero oil theft and vandalization in the Niger Delta.
“We’re going to walk with an NPPCL and the IOCs to make sure that oil tapped is brought to zero,” he said.
Asari-Dokubo said the blackmail of the Nigerian state by the Nigerian military was shameful.
He argued that people always listen to the false narratives that the military did not have enough armament to fight oil theft.
“So this blackmail must end. They have enough resources to fight,” he stated.
