Oil ownership: Bugaje’s statement prelude to genocide –Asari-Dokubo Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mujahid Asari- Dokubo, has said that the statement by Alhaji Usman Bugaje that the oil in the Niger Delta belongs to the north, is a prelude to genocide. He alleged that the north was planning genocide against the people of Nigeria. Asari, who addressed the press in Abuja yesterday, in reaction to Bugaje’s comments, also called on security operatives to invite Bugaje to explain his statement, which according to him, is inciting. He stressed that Bugaje’s statement should be taken serious as he (Bugaje) spoke for the north. “The intention and implication of Bugaje’s statement is that the north is planning genocide against our people, the same way they are sponsoring Boko Haram. That is the import of what Bugaje has said; people might not see it, and they will say Asari is an alarmist. He spoke the mind of the north. They are deceiving and inciting their people against our people. What Bugaje did was to incite this people, but we are ready for them. So, he can go on inciting his people. We are ready for everything they are planning for. What Bugaje said started when Ken Saro- Wiwa started the Ogoni struggle, and Bala Mohammed came out and said that the oil segmented from the north to the south, as if the world is horizontal. They are telling us their willing for crisis because they are handin- glove in this struggle to subjugate and steal what did not belong to them. The Nigeria security agents should look at what Bugaje said, and call him to explain, because his statement is a prelude to genocide against our people and Nigerian state should not joke with it because Bugaje is not an ordinary person. People should not play with his statement. The weight of what Bugaje said will revibrate years to come,” Asari-Dokubo said. It will be recalled that Bugaje, one of the speakers at the Northern Leaders Conference in Kano, said that the crude oil domiciled majorly in the Niger Delta region, belonged to the north. According to Bugaje, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, it is wrong for any state to claim that it is oil producing because 72 per cent of the total land mass in the country belonged to the North and that by the United Nations’ laws; it is only the North that actually has the right to claim ownership in Nigeria. In his presentation, Bugaje insisted that “there are no oil producing states. The only oil producing state is the Nigerian state itself. Whatever mileage you get in the sea, according to the United Nations Law of the Sea, is a measure of the landmass that you have; that is what gives you the mileage into the sea.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:43 +0000
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