Asari Dokubo declares himself leader of new Biafra government
Ex-Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo has declared himself leader of the new โBiafra de facto customary government
In a statement issued on Sunday by the spokesman of the customary government Uche Mefor, Dokubo cited โinjustice and marginalisationโ on the Igbo found in various zones of the country, as the reason for his aspiring for a โbetter life for his people.โ
The statement, also named George Onyibe as secretary of the group and Emeka Esiri as the officer in charge of its legal matters.
According to the statement, Dokubo vowed that the new body would take care of the current insecurity challenges faced by the Igbos, as well as focusing on science and technology to make life easier for the people.
Dokubo listed the proposed governmentโs paramount agenda as comprising security by โsecuring the lives and properties of our people, we are going to invest everything we have in science and technology to increase the scientific and technological discoveries, fabrications and making life easier for our people through science and technologyโ.
He said, “we are going to pursue rigorously the education of our people, we are going to make sure that we feed ourselves”.
โYou are all aware of the recent plot where they decided to stop food from the north, They failed woefully, they will continue to fail.”
โThe government of Biafra States will look to make sure that we only eat what we can produce.”
Nobody can stop us, Nobody can block us, as they did in the first war, Weโre not going to fight any war with anybody, weโre walking to freedom.”
โWe will not shoot any gun with them, they will prepare their weapon but they will have nobody to kill with their weapon.โ
He added that they would proceed to set up provincial structures of government, starting with provincial assemblies and provincial governance and administrators.
