Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately arrest the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Asari Dokubo and his boys.
In a statement released in Enugu State yesterday, the human right group frowned at the manner Asari Dokubo and his boys were openly brandishing sophisticated arms and ammunition monitored on different social media platforms.
The group accused Federal Government of “hypocrisy, partiality and lackadaisical disposition ” for allowing Dokubo and his boys to carry arms openly without being challenged by security operatives in the country.
The group in the statement signed by the campaign and publicity secretary of HURIDE, Unah Zachues Unah, said Dokubo and his boys were seen wielding AK-47s, General Purpose Machine Guns(GPMGsonopenly on social media, threatening anyone who dared to challenge them.
The rights group condemned the sheer bravado and utter disrespect to the constituted authority with the way Dokubo’s men displayed arms, boasting that nobody can touch them.
True to their boasting, said HURIDE, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police nor the Directorate of State Security (DSS) has challenged Dokubo and his men.
Unfortunately, said the group, the Buhari-Buhari led Federal Government put all resources available to it to rendition Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from Kenya.
Since then, Kanu has been languishing in the DSS facility in Abuja and they have refused to release him despite different Court judgements ordering that he should be set free.
HURIDE asked what offence did Kanu commit that he should be kept in detention all these years? while those who openly brandish AK-47s and GPMGs in the streets of Bayelsa are left free.
They noted that Asari Dokubo was left because of their anti-Igbo disposition, saying that operatives of NDVF are part of the Ebubeagu security network launched by South East Governors to checkmate the activities of ESN and IPOB.
