Press Statement ¨C Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari

 Wherever the banner of freedom is lifted, the torn flag of the oppressor will also be hoisted alongside the banner of freedom. Today, visionless, reactionary and counter-struggle elements are trying their utmost, in collaboration with the bandit government of the Nigerian State, to bring to disrepute, our patriotic and heroic struggle.

Recent events unfolding in the Bantustans of River State has proven that the hand of the bandit government of the Nigerian State is involved in the new wave of increasing criminal activities. All this is done to achieve the goal of discrediting the patriotic, nationalist and humane struggle of our heroic combatants in the eyes and minds of our people. We must be eternally vigilant in order not to be hoodwinked by the dubious antics of the cowardly and crestfallen lunatic political elite who have appropriated to themselves our natural patrimony in disregard to all natural and international laws and conventions.

I, Alhaji Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo-Asari, hereby strongly dissociate myself and all the volunteers and combatants of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) from the recent acts of brigandage and senseless killing by people who claim to be part of the noble struggle of the oppressed and dispossessed people of the Niger Delta ©¤ These people are not and will never be a part of us. They stand eternally condemned in this world and in the hereafter for volunteering themselves to be used by a dubious and discredited oligarchy.

I want the people to mobilize and equip themselves to confront this visionless, reactionary and counter-struggle elements. They do not have any spiritual protection or backing. Majority of our combatants believe in the ability of the Ijaw deities to provide them supernatural protection. This spiritual essence commands that their protections should not be used in the promotion of evil and criminality, therefore bank robbery, stealing and the senseless taking of innocent life runs contrary to the high moral and spiritual laws of our noble struggle. We must not be afraid of them because they are mere flesh and blood like us.

I feel the grief in my heart and my heart goes in sympathy to all those who have been fallen by the criminal and unholy bullets of these bandits. We must be strong for history is on our side. This was how the criminal apartheid government of South Africa promoted blacks-on-blacks violence in their erroneous belief that it will guarantee them an ever lasting reign ©¤ they failed. So also will the dubious and criminal government of the Nigerian State fail.

The struggle is unstoppable!

Alhaji Mujahid Abubakr Dokubo-Asari