{"id":90241,"date":"2023-06-18T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/youre-the-criminal-not-nnamdi-kanu-massob-fires-back-at-asari-dokubo"},"modified":"2023-06-19T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T23:26:00","slug":"youre-the-criminal-not-nnamdi-kanu-massob-fires-back-at-asari-dokubo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/youre-the-criminal-not-nnamdi-kanu-massob-fires-back-at-asari-dokubo","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re the criminal not Nnamdi Kanu\u2019 \u2013 MASSOB fires back at Asari Dokubo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has described former militant leader, Asari Dokubo as a criminal and an economic saboteur.<\/p>\n<p>MASSOB was reacting to Dokubo\u2019s call that President Bola Tinubu should not release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting with Tinubu, Dokubo said releasing Kanu would be a reward for criminality in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReleasing Nnamdi Kanu is rewarding criminality and rewarding gruesome murder of innocent people. He should face the law for the actions and instigations he has carried out,\u201d Dokubo said.<\/p>\n<p>Condemning the comment, MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, said the call was the \u201cranting of a frustrated criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Madu: \u201cAsari Dokubo should be ashamed of himself, for biting the finger that fed him, by selling his conscience as an object of cheap sabotage against the collective interest of the Eastern region in order to get relevance from the federal government, he fought against and killed her hundreds of military and other security agents<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsari Dokubo is the criminal, not Nnamdi Kanu. How can a man with illegal possession of general-purpose machine guns and hundreds of AK-47 call a man without a catapult a criminal?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMASSOB wishes to remind Asari Dokubo how himself and his militant criminal boys destroyed and vandalised petroleum pipelines in the name of self-determination agitation for Ijaw people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsari Dokubo asking Tinubu not to release Nnamdi Kanu is a direct exposure of the real criminal who should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a criminal or an inconsequential saboteur like the Moslem perpetual slave called Alhaji Dokubo Asari.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has described former militant leader, Asari Dokubo as a criminal and an economic saboteur. MASSOB was reacting to Dokubo\u2019s call that President Bola Tinubu should not release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. 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