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NIGER DELTA
PEOPLES VOLUNTEER FORCE
13 Agudama
Avenue, D-Line, Port Harcourt
www.akumafiete.org
On
Wednesday,
August 9, 2006, Thisday daily newspaper carried a publication
captioned, “Dokubo Seeks Release of German Hostage”, purportedly
culled from a press statement signed by one Mr. Allen Onyema who
claimed to be writing un-behalf of Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo–Asari. We
condemn in totality every aspect of the said publication/statement.
In the statement, the said Mr. Allen Onyema wrote that, “it has come
to the notice of the detained Niger- Delta activist and youth
leader, Alhaji Dokubo-Asari through a newspaper report that the
kidnappers of the German national who was kidnapped few days ago
were demanding his immediate and unconditional release from
detention and that of another person facing trial as a condition for
the release of the hostage”. It went further to state that, “Asari
wishes to appeal to the kidnappers to release unconditionally, their
hostage as he has no hand in his travails”. Also Mr. Allen Onyema in
the said statement claimed that Alhaji Dokubo-Asari mandated his
group, Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) to transform
members of his group through the non-violence education introduced
by the group.
However, it
will be proper that we put the fact as they are.
1. Mr.
Allen Onyema who claimed that he was the Chairman of FEHN visited
our leaders in detention two months ago to discuss about peaceful
alternative means of agitation. Our leader told him that peaceful
means does not work in Nigeria because gentlemen are not in
government yet. He told them that the Nigerian state does not
respect an agreement which is why our people are returning back to
revolutionary means of resistance.
2.
Recently Mr. Allen Onyema sent a message through Dokubo’s wife to
him asking for his intervention in the case of the abduction of a
German national. Alhaji Dokubo-Asari sent a message back to him
through his wife that Mr. Onyema should not drag him into a matter
that he knows nothing about.
3. At
no time did Alhaji Dokubo-Asari mandate FEHN to transform members of
his group. This is derogatory, malicious, condemnable, contemptible
and totally false. It is an attempt to undermine and ridicule the
genuine and patriotic struggle of our people. Our esteemed leader
will continue to support violent means of resistance until the
freedom and liberty of the Niger- Delta is recognized.
Finally, we
salute the courage of all our genuine patriots and nationalists who
have found one way or the other to register their
voices against the exploitation, dehumanization and victimization of
our people and leaders, for they are the heroes of our struggle.
The struggle
continues!
Colonel Umar
Suku-Amachree
Field
Commander
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