A CLARION CALL TO NIGER DELTA PEOPLE

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>>Our organization calls on apostles of justice all over the world to join us in demanding for the trial of the agents of the Nigerian state that are responsible for  barbaric and savagely acts. We remain as focused as ever as we continue to fight for self determination. Do not forget that “the man dies in him who keeps silent in face of tyranny and injustice”. Commrade Mark Olise- Director Of Administration NDPSF :: >>At this juncture, we must remember with sorrow all those who have died or suffered in our search for  a New Nigeria. Let us remember all our dead, and let  us note with bewilderment the arrest of Dokubo Asari, the advocate of a happier tomorrow for the Niger Delta... National Chairman - PRONACO

NIGER DELTA PEOPLES SALVATION FRONT (NDPSF) NATIONAL SECRETARIAT

13,  Agudama street  D-Line, Port Harcourt

Website: www.akumafiete.org Email: ndpsf@akumafiete.org.

Mobile: 0803 931 0668, 0802 768 8711

 LEADER: Alh. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari

 

PRESS STATEMENT

SENATOR FEMI OKUROUNMU’S COMMENT ON NIGER DELTA - REACTIONARY

There is always a price for freedom.  When a people are ready to pay that price, they do not care about condemnation from anti-progressive or reactionary forces. Freedom is never free. We know that the news expressed by Senator Femi Okurounmu, the supposed secretary of Afenifere, in an interview with the Punch newspaper on Thursday8 June 2006 and published on Friday 8 June 2006, were his personal views and not that of Afenifere. It is rather, his views in his capacity as a stooge of the maximum ruler of the Nigerian State Gen. Obasanjo.

In the said interview, Senator Femi Okurounmu made the following controversial and reactionary remarks:

1.       That the worsening security situations in the Niger Delta was a

 threat to democracy in Nigeria. 

2.      That the Federal Government of the Nigerian State should intensify its pacification efforts especially in the development programme of the area;

 3.      That all the same time, the people more than anything else, will be pacified if the presidency goes to the Niger Delta  

4.       That if somebody from the Niger Delta the president, they will not like to destabilize the country as they are doing now. 

 4.      That he opposes the insistence on the release of our esteemed and patriotic leader, Alhagi Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo-Asari, by Niger Delta freedom fighters.

       Regrettably, the Chief Scribe of Afenifere who is supposed to be an embodiment of knowledge and ideas of democracy nationalism and self-determination is too ignorant to know, or too unclear headed to admit that: the situation in the Niger Delta is one of domination and exploitation; that the people have resolved to resist and combat their oppressors; no country can be democratic without its people being first of all free; there is no democracy in Nigeria to be threatened because Nigeria is not a free country in the first instance; and our peoples are demanding for self-determination and resource takeover/control which are in line with the philosophy of the pioneer leader of Afenifere, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Furthermore, students of history of liberation struggle know that the arrest of any freedom fighter is always political and prejudicial you can not be guaranteed a fair trial as was the case in the State Vs chief Obafemi Awolowo, State vs Chief Olusegun Obansanjo and now, State Vs Alh. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, where the trial judge, as well as the court of Appeal Justices ruled that they believe that he is a threat to National security even when trial has not commenced. This means that he has been assumed guilty when Pa Awolowo, Obasanjo, Beko Ransom-kuti, all Yorubas where standing in for trial, people demanded for their release by making the country ungovernable.

 

However we wish to use this medium to restate our earlier position in opposition to Senator Femi Okurounmu’s wish, against the presidential aspirants from the South-South especially those who canvassed for Third Term, chiefly among them Dr. Peter Odili. Their Presidential candidacy will further aggravate the tension in the Niger Delta as they are seen as representatives of the forces of occupation and exploitation of the Nigerian State in the region.

 

Zoning of Presidency to the South-South is not the way out of this present imbroglio. The successful implementation of the resolutions of a sovereign National conference endorsing self-determination will finally resolve the Niger Delta question and enthrone genuine democracy and path to industrialization the Niger Delta needs and have the sympathy of the oppressed masses and not feudalobourgeous gestapo’s like you.

Finally, we demand an unreserved apology from Senator Femi Okurounmu to the Niger delta people.  we demand that he should be expelled from Afenifere leadership. we advise that he subject his views to dialectical analysis before making them public. We sympathize with the leadership and membership of Afemifere and the Yoruba Nation over the unfortunate, disgraceful, provocative unclear headed, reactionary, incredible unprecedented, uncomradely, unideological and unintelectual vituperations (capable of inciting civil war) of the supposed secretary of the Pan-Yoruba Socio –culture organization, Afenifere nevertheless we shall continue to collaborate with progressive individuals and organization representing other regions in the course of advancing the cause of advancing the cause of our people.

We wish to make it abundantly clear that Alh. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari is not begging for release neither is the Niger Delta begging to be liberated. we are taking our destiny in our hands.

 

Thank you

The struggle continues/victory is sure!

Mark Olise.    

 

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