"Draw the first blood!" Asari Dokubo dares 'General' Buhari
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| "Draw the first blood!" Asari Dokubo dares 'General' Buhari |
The leader of the Niger Delta People Salvation Front, Asari Dokubo, has
dared 'General' Muhammadu Buhari, to draw the first blood in the Niger
Delta, if he is brave enough. Dokubo stated this while reaffirming his
group's readiness to commence armed struggle against the Nigerian state.
Speaking at the Annual Major Isaac Adaka Boro’s Memorial Public Event,
the freedom fighter said whatever restraining order the Jonathan’s
administration had on the armed struggle for the self-determination of
the Niger Delta people has now been voided with the emergence of Buhari.
He said a new phase in the struggle will soon be unveiled, but that
militants will wait for the new government to “draw the first blood.”
“Yes, a new government begins in Nigeria and a next phase of our
struggle shall begin also,” he said. “Jonathan Goodluck Presidency was
like a restraining order now that restraint is lifted. However, we will
watch and wait, let them draw the first blood and we shall determine our
best way forward. Truly Nigeria will never be the same again the future
is pregnant.”
He said the posturing of Buhari suggests that it will extinguish
whatever is left of the Niger Delta struggle. He added he is ready to
die in war or in prison if the in-coming government attempts to trifle
with the struggle for self-determination of the oil-producing region or
treat it as a conquered region.
“Should Buhari whom like pharaoh has determined in his heart to turn
desolate the Niger Delta region, draw the first blood by undermining
certain interest of the region then begin the systemic arrest, maiming
and murder our comrades, continue the confiscation of our rights to
self-determination and treat the region as a conquered region, then it
may be honourable for some of us to die in prison or in the field of war
as nobody is afraid of him,” Mr. Dokubo said.
Dokubo also lambasted other Niger Delta militants that have declared
their readiness to work with in-coming government describing them as
“petty penny merchants” and “field slaves” who have fled the battlefield
before the first good is fired.
He further called on Niger Delta youth to resist any attempt to treat the region as a defeated region.
“Let it be known that we were not defeated.
“It was Jonathan and his party that lost an election. We as a people,
indeed the Niger Delta region alongside the Igbos were never defeated.
We collectively rejected the born to rule and supremacist agenda which
some of our brothers as field slaves and taskmasters supported yet their
number shows that they are of little consequence, we must however not
take them for granted.”
“He, Jonathan Goodluck, was never in the struggle.
“He was not a product of the struggle but an establishment beneficiary
of our struggle. Our struggle is not and never about becoming the
president. It was not about being awarded oil licenses and
mouth-watering contracts. It was not about massive infrastructural
development of the Niger Delta Region. It was not about high scale
appointments employment and empowerment. It was never about
interventionist programmes and projects.
“Our struggle indeed is about our collective freedom from a false and
forced colonial union that has remained divided and un-integrated. It is
about our being conferred a slave status and seen as a conquered people
who must exist at the mercy of the overloads and supremacist class
using our own brothers as taskmasters against us in a Nigerian union.
“Our status in the Nigerian enterprise remains that of a conquered
people living a slave and prisoners status. This is the collective
identity we have as a people. Whether you are rich, poor, high, low,
big, mighty or small, no matter how well dressed, well fed a slave or a
prisoner his, he remains a slave and a prisoner who constantly lives at
the mercy and dictates of others with his contributions and consent of
no consequence. This is why we must now than ever stand up like the
Scottish to determine our going forward for our platforms and reject our
oppressors. This will not come easy.”
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