A spokesperson for the Nigerian police told PREMIUM TIMES he would find out why the former militant leader was yet to be arrested like others who committed similar offences.
Many Nigerians who believe in a famous legal principle, “equality before the law,” must have thought that the country’s authorities would immediately arrest Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta Militant, for brandishing rifles in a video clip.More than eight months after the clip surfaced online, Mr Dokubo was yet to be arrested or summoned for questioning.
The former militant leader, who spoke on varied issues, brandished two AK-47 rifles while threatening to kill all Igbos, an ethnic group predominant in Nigeria’s South-east. “Una head no correct,” he spoke in Pidgin English, while picking and brandishing another AK-47 rifle. When translated into English, the expression means, “Is like you people are looking for who will kill you all? Someone who will hunt for you everywhere and kill all of you.”No person shall have in his possession or under his control any firearm or ammunition except with a license from the president or the inspector-general of police, according to Nigeria’s Firearms Act No 32 of the 1959 CAP F28 LFN 2004.