The incarcerated Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu should not be released, according to former Niger Delta warlord Mujahid Asari-Dokubo.
After meeting with Tinubu in Abuja on Friday, Asari-Dokubo addressed with reporters and said that Kanu is a criminal who needs to be given the opportunity to answer for his actions.
He said that Kanu threw petrol on the #EndSARS fires when he was roaming free throughout the campaign to end SARS.
According to him, now that he had been caught, “what of the people who have died? This is a criminal. He should face the law.”
Asari-Dokubo argued that releasing Kanu is like rewarding criminality and rewarding gruesome murder of innocent people.
“He should face the law for the actions and instigations he has carried out,” he said.
He also accused the military of being at the centre of oil theft in the Niger Delta.
“We have to make this very clear to the Nigerian public that 99 per cent of oil theft can be traced to the Nigerian military, the Army and the Navy especially,” he stated.
Asari-Dokubo added that he and others in the Niger Delta had assured the President that there would be zero oil theft and vandalization in the Niger Delta.
“We’re going to walk with an NPPCL and the IOCs to make sure that oil tapped is brought to zero,” he said.
Asari-Dokubo said the blackmail of the Nigerian state by the Nigerian military was shameful.
He argued that people always listen to the false narratives that the military did not have enough armament to fight oil theft.
“So this blackmail must end. They have enough resources to fight,” he stated.
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