From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Enugu
The Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has warned Niger Delta warlord, Asari Dokubo, to desist from attacking the Igbo.
MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, gave the warning in a statement, yesterday, in reaction to Dokubo’s recent remarks where he called the Igbo slaves and conquered people by Kalabari and Ijaw tribes.
MASSOB berated Dokubo asking him to desist from “unnecessary and unachievable” attacks against the Igbo, stressing that the former Niger Delta agitator would never succeed.
Describing Dokubo’s statement as the ranting of a drowning man, the group said the unwarranted attack on the Igbo by Dokubo has awoken the lion spirit and bravery in the Igbo.
“In the traditional history of conquest, warfare and bravery, of Ndigbo and Ijaw people, it is on record that Ijaw people with their allies have never achieved seven per cent of the conquest, dominion and domination of what Ndigbo have achieved both in pre colonial era and in this modern era. Asari Dokubo in his bourgeois stupidity forget that it was Ndigbo that stopped the British colonial rulers from changing and deleting the native names and cultural heritages of Ijaw people during the conquest of the British colonial adventure.
“How can a prodigal son whose known grandfather with some kinsmen from Abam town in Abia State of Igbo land conquered Dokubo Asari”s Kalahari community where he is still claiming his origination will turn and say that the Kalahari community Ndigbo conquered and still dominating their economic and social lives is our master.
“Dokubo Asari have once again proved his low mentality and puff puff nature. That Ijaw people are neighbors to Ndigbo and that Ndigbo treat them as brothers and sisters does not warrant competing with Ndigbo in every spheres of life both nationally and globally. Even the Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani generally sees the Ijaw people as extension of Ndigbo from Eastern region. MASSOB reminds Dokubo Asari that no amount of his loyalty and errand boyish services to Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani of biased Nigeria will make him a hero or accord him celebrated recognition because the federal government hate Ijaws more than Ndigbo.”
Madu, however, said that the Igbo, irrespective of Dokubo’s irresponsibility, still respect elderly statesmen from Ijaw land, including Chief Edwin Clerk and former President Goodluck Jonathan.
“We still recognize Ijaw people as our brothers subjected in the same British created artificial entity called Nigeria.”