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‘Explain Asari Dokubo’s Involvement In $9.3 Million Arms Deal’, APC Queries GEJ

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Addressing the recent rift between South Africa and Nigeria over Illegal arms deal, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again launched an accusation against Federal Government.

APC had on Wednesday October 9, 2014 asked President Mr President to explain to the public why Asari Dokubo  was on the plane that illegally carrying US$9.3 million to South Africa, where he (Dokubo)was  arrested along with another Nigerian and an Israeli.

APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, Ocotber 8, 2014 stated that if the federal government has taken ownership of the alleged funds by saying the National Security Adviser, issued the end-user certificate for the arms ordered.

The party is therefore of the opinion that same government will be understand the involvement of all those aboard the plane.

APC stated that according to arm purchase regulation, the NSA, who issued the end-user agreement for the purchase, does not have any business to purchase arms for any of the armed services. The Service Chiefs have separate budgets from the NSA for arms purchase.

”Under our Constitution, the NSA is an adviser and has no executive powers to deploy troops from any of the services or purchase arms for them. That the arms purported to be purchased from South Africa were ordered from the office of the NSA is nothing but a mere fabrication, and raises serious questions about the motive for the purchase.

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”Nigerians will therefore like to know on whose behalf Asari Dokubo was purchasing arms. This is very crucial because Asari Dokubo has been threatening that Nigeria will not know peace if his benefactor, President Jonathan, is not re-elected. Therefore, Nigerians will like to know whether he has started stockpiling arms to make his threat a reality, since elections are due in a few months’ time.

”If these arms are meant to fight insurgency, as the government has claimed, what is Asari Dokubo’s business purchasing arms for the Nigerian military, if indeed they were for the military? Does it not occur to the Nigerian government that this man who once took arms against the state may not have jettisoned his sinister plan against the same state? Which country will ever allow a man who once carried arms against the state to now be purchasing arms for the same state?

“Even if it is true that he is purchasing the arms for the state, what prevents him from also using the opportunity to purchase arms for his own sinister motive? Could this be why Asari Dokubo has been talking publicly and confidently, without official censure, that President Jonathan must be re-elected or Nigeria will not know peace again?” asked APC.

The party however requested that the media follow the matter to the latter and intimate the public on the update

“We call on the media, in pursuance of its constitutional role of a watchdog, not to relent in exposing the circumstances surrounding the cash-for-arms deals, which have seriously embarrassed Nigeria in the comity of nations and which have the potential to threaten Nigeria’s unity, going by the latest revelations”.

Lai Mohammed

National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC)

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