A member of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, PMAN, and former image maker of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Imo State, Ambassador Emma Maduike has blasted ex-mikitant leader, Asari Dokubo over comments against calls for the release of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Maduike popularly called Onwa, said Dokubo should “shut up”, having been involved in large scale militant activities in the Niger Delta that led to loss of lives and destruction of oil infrastructure that negatively affected the economy of the country.
Dokubo was quoted as advising against repeated calls for President Bola Tinubu to release Kanu in order to calm the raging insecurity in the southeast and begin the healing process in the region.
The newly sworn in Governor Mba of Enugu State, had recently paid a visit to the president in Aso Rock Villa, where he urged Tinubu to release Kanu who has been in detention for about two years now.
The former Imo PMAN boss said Dokubo by his antecedents, lacks the moral ground to oppose Kanu’s release, adding that the same Dokubo has forgotten that he was a beneficiary of late President Umaru Musa Yar’dua’s amnesty programme for militants who killed many and made life difficult for the people of that region and by extension, Nigeria
He therefore, wondered why the same Dokubo, a former militant leader implicated in the killings and destruction of pipelines and government property would oppose the release of Kanu, whom he said, is more educated and exposed internationally than Dokubo.
Maduike advised President Tinubu to ignore the rantings of the former creek fighter, Dokubo, and release Kanu in order to ensure that peace returned to the Southeast Zone of the country.
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