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08/13/09 Daily Independent (Lagos)

Warri - Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF) headed by Muhajeed Dokubo-Asari has accused the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ogbonnaya Onovo of trying to undermine the amnesty offer by the Federal Government, calling for his immediate resignation.
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This comes as the group said over 20 of its members have accepted the government olive branch, but implored the government to rein in the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), who it accused of working with the police to nail Dokubo-Asari over alleged plans to destabilise the government through force of arms.

“The Inspector General of Police, Onovo, has often vowed to deal with and kill Dokubo-Asari and he is helping his bosom friend, Henry Okah to see this to this over God knows why. They will surely fail,” the group said.

Besides, it also accused the police of sponsoring the alarm raised by the self-acclaimed Dokubo-Asari’s second in command, Wisdom Amachree, in some national dailies that he is stock-pilling arms to cause felony in the nation.

“We wish to ask the police what point they were trying to prove by raiding a so called amoury of a people willing and ready to accept amnesty on the day amnesty was declared open if something is not fundamentally wrong,” the group stated.

The police, the group alleged also plan to eliminate “their own informant, the very second in command, Amachree” and “put it squarely against Dokubo-Asari and the People Salvation Front and Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (PSF/NDPVF) so as to charge him with murder on his return from medical treatment abroad.”

Asari’s spokesman, Rex Anighoro, who restated his stance not to accept the amnesty offer, said the proposal “is not and will never be the solution to the Niger Delta

‘question,’” adding that “we demand for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference where all ethnic nationalities will sit to decide the collective terms of their existence.”

He said those who broke the rank to accept the offer did that out of their own freewill and questions why the police should arrest and incarcerate them, a development which he noted negates the very essence of the amnesty programme.