By Abba Gwale
A former militant in the Niger Delta region, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has announced himself as the new leader of the Biafra de facto Customary Government, citing “injustice and marginalisation” on the Igbo people found in various zones of the country as the reason for his aspiring for a better life for his people.
This is in a statement signed by the Head of Information and Communication of the customary government, Uche Mefor, copies of which were made available to newsmen in Warri on Sunday evening.
The online statement, which has gone viral, also announced that George Onyibe would be the Secretary while Emeka Esiri would be in charge of the Legal Matters.
The statement said Asari-Dokubo vowed that the de facto government would take care of the current insecurity challenges faced by the Igbo as well as focusing on science and technology to make life easier for the people.
According to him, in the efforts to achieve the set goals, the ‘government’ shall never go into war with anybody adding that the regime’s determination is to take care of the needs of the people.
Asari-Dokubo also listed the proposed government’s paramount agenda as comprising security by “securing the lives and properties of our people, he said they are going to invest everything they have in science and technology to increase the scientific and technological discoveries, fabrications and making life easier for their people through science and technology.”
“We are going to pursue rigorously the education of our people; we are going to make sure that we feed ourselves. You are all aware of the recent plot where they decided to stop food from the North. They failed woefully; they will continue to fail. The government of Biafra States will look to make sure that we only eat what we can produce.
“Nobody can stop us. Nobody can blockade us as they did in the first war. We’re not going to fight any war with anybody; we’re walking to freedom. We will not shoot any gun with them, they will prepare their weapon but they will have nobody to kill with their weapon,” he said.
