Group Calls for Arrest of Asari Dokubo, Others Over Violence Threats
The leadership of the Rivers Restoration Movement, RRM, has condemned recent statements credited to Alhaji Asari Dokubo, Prof Benjamin Okaba, Chief Sara Igbe, and some other leaders of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, calling for their arrests.
The group, in a statement jointly signed by RRM’s Director General, Johnson Georgewill, and Secretary, Sarima Akpata, on Friday, said the call followed extensive deliberations with respected Ijaw leaders.
RRM described the threats as not only reckless, thoughtless, and provocative but also a grave threat to national security and peaceful coexistence.
This was as the Ijaw National Council (INC) and Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), warned that they will resist any forceful attempt to remove Governor Siminilayi Fubara from office, adding that should those threatening impeachment against Fubara carry out their threat, the youths of Ijaw nation will be left with no other options than to shut down all the flow stations in the Niger Delta.
RRM said, “As a group that stands for peace, justice, and a united Nigeria, we believe no individual or organization has the monopoly of violence, so we are calling on the Nigerian Security agencies to arrest these individuals or any other person or group that will threaten the Nigerian State, it’s economy or people. Enough is Enough.
“RRM is wondering if the purveyors of these messages of destruction or economic sabotage are more Ijaws than the 9 grateful Rivers State House Of Assembly members from the IJAW extraction that have been maltreated, humiliated, and denied all their allowances by the Gov Fubara administration for over a year when no court had declared their seats vacant?
“Finally, RRM wants to make it clear that we run a constitutional democracy guided by laws, and the highest court of the land (The Supreme Court) has spoken, and Gov Fubara is bound to obey the ruling. Furthermore, the public is hereby advised to disregard their empty, watery, and old-fashioned threat because the laws of Nigeria are always supreme.”
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