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WAR DRUMS: "IGBO, IBIBIO, IKWERRE, IJAW RETURN BACK HOME TO SOUTH EAST, SOUTH SOUTHÔÇØ ASARI BLOWS HOT
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Afnews Editor
Jul 20, 2019
Ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has called on
South-South and South-Easterners to return home following threats from
Coalition of Northern Groups.
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Asari spoke on the heels of the Coalition of Northern Groups
and the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, asking herdsmen to leave the South.
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Dokubo spoke during a meeting with leaders of Niger Delta
states, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday.
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He said, "We, the people of the Niger Delta today, resolved
to be part and parcel of the actualization the United States of Biafra.
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"What has brought us here today is the dark cloud that is
gathering. In 1967, we did not ask for war, war was imposed on us and millions
of our people were killed. Our properties were destroyed and so many people
until today are carrying the scars of that imposed war.
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"Our people have not gone to Kano, Kebbi, Sokoto, Borno to
ask that land be forcefully given to us or that our resources should be used to
give us properties in the north.
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"But northern organizations and northern individuals have
come up to say we must surrender our land to them to create colonies on our
land. Are you going to allow that?
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"We will not surrender one grain of sand of our sacred land
to anybody. We will stand on our land and wait for you to come and carry out
your threat and inshallah by the grace of God we will defeat you.
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"We have heard that you have called your people to come back
home. They should all go, we will assist them to leave (because) this is what
we have been looking for all along.
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"We call on our people, Igbo, Ibibio, Ikwerre, Ijaw return
back home. If anything happens to you and these coward spines on you, you would
have yourself to blame. We would not continue to risk our integrity and our
pride because of you, return home now.
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"We extend a hand of fellowship to our brothers in the
middle belt who are suffering the same pain and deprivation as we do. We are with
you in your hours of grief and pain and we will stand with you to the end.
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"To our Yoruba brothers in Afenifere, and the leader of
Afenifere, whose daughter has been gruesomely murdered by these Gambari
invaders, we condole with you but this is the price we have to pay to wake up.ÔÇØ
