OPINION ADEBAYO ABUBAKAR: Between Asari Dokubo and the Nigerian military | TheCable
capital. He was one of the numerous notable people who have paid the newly sworn-in president a courtesy visit. It was expected to come and go, like a dozen others before it, but the ever-combative Dokubo would have none of that as he sat before the camera to address newsmen after meeting with the president to talk about what most Nigerians already know but are afraid of discussing in the open, for fear of being visited with the state’s instrument of violence.
Those were the allegations by the ex-militant-turned “statesman”, against two of the most important security agencies in the country. The allegations are, in every sense, weighty because they border on economic sabotage. But flippant as the accusation may sound, it is difficult not to believe that some elements in the security circle are not aware, or part, of the syndicate.
From the Lake Chad region, the forests of Zamfara, Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto states to the creeks of the Niger Delta, their sacrifices are neither unnoticed nor unappreciated. I read in the news the responses of both the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy asking him to name names. I, personally, do not appreciate asking him to name anyone he might have caught in the act.
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