alj harem:

and that's why we have to kill reduce your numbers so that the aboki at your gate will be the owner of the house, and u will now be the inyamarai at the gate.

and what make you think its only you pple that have monopoly of violence? Look, i have already made up my mind, at every news of a southerner being slain or even just assaulted  , I will personally delete two northerners.  Maybe i will even  start with that slowpoke gateman at my gate and  his 11years old new wife.
NONSENSE!!!

alj harem:

[size=15pt] what is the meaning of this  

jonathan can not do anything to a northerner

we are superior to jonathan(minority) or any southern ethnic group     fact

i read some of u people's post yesterday, and i can help but laugh at the way u southerners show fear!!!!

c'mon it is embarrassing to see fear in my fellow nigerians comment,, what do u thing other countries read this would think

they would think that we are all the same, not knowing that it is u southerners that are cowards and we are superior over southerners


shame on u all [/size]

Still high on the blood of innocent un-armed women and children you killed in jos

You will soon feel how hot a lead can be when it hit your empty brain propelled from a 5-inch 50 caliber

this alh harem is very annoying!!!!!!!! what a fool!!!

daroz:

and what make you think its only you pple that have monopoly of violence? Look, i have already made up my mind, at every news of a southerner being slain or even just assaulted  , I will personally delete two northerners.  Maybe i will even  start with that slowpoke gateman at my gate and  his 11years old new wife.
NONSENSE!!!

look, wahaliee i would kill u myself

u dey craze for head

if u lay a finger at him not to talk of even blood

i will hunt u down  fact        

is it because he is your gateman that's why u feel u are at the advantage here

hear me,  i will hunt u down myself

let me hear that those silly yoruba people or inyamaria have killed just 1 northern ant!!

it will be a massacre for u people,,,,,fact

Beaf:

Dude, live above sectionalism and ethnic jingoism. JTF is in the ND already, so stop tending toward bigotery.
Ciroma and Atiku are vultures of the same clan. Both must be tried for treason.

maybe you should stop the hypocrisy and chip propaganda and deal with the reality at hand.Compared to the south, ciroma and Atiku na small thing.where all those your silly elders spewing shiit every little thing.war or division.Even you have in some post instigated the arming of groups unlawfully to challenge others.
FREEDOM FIGHTers may ring a belll!!!!! JTF my foot
No police and other security formations in north.why you have JTF is largely because of kidnapping,bunkering and sabotage outside that  don't see a mandate for treason.why you always have likes of Dokubo and Okah threaten Nigeria.Hold everyone to ransom.

ALh Harem is one funny dude!

haka_nai:

My guy don't get me wrong.you can't ignore others and treat others specially. has the president being deaf or blind when all the other utterances/actions/treat were flying around.from his people and others.
I don't really care about who gets tried but it has being long over due to tackle this grouse abuse on the nation and her dignity.it should have being nipped in the bud.not to say if i touch this group of boys or criminal Nigeria will have no peace.send the message so everyone knows you can't be on Nigerian soil atleast and insult her.we don't care the reason,your support ,who you are or what you claim you can do! the law must take it's place!!!

So if Adamu Ciroma and Tanko Yakassai are charged for treason along with Atiku, then the decision is fine right?

chyz:

So if Adamu Ciroma and Tanko Yakassai are charged for treason along with Atiku, then the decision is fine right?

shattap

what about dukubo, edwin clark, massop leader, gani adams etc so what are u talking about

@ haka nai and harem

the way you northerners think is soo wierd . one of you is threaten violence and the other is trying to justify treasonable acts na wa for you northerners ooo! why are you guys hell bent on taking us to the 15th century when we are in the 21st  do you not want us to progress  is it not halal to progress why do you guys refuse to get educated or remove your leaders do you all think its only the north that is violent prone?  anyway, we shall see who blinks first

jason12345:

@ haka nai and harem

the way you northerners think is soo wierd . one of you is threaten violence and the other is trying to justify treasonable acts na wa for you northerners ooo! why are you guys hell bent on taking us to the 15th century when we are in the 21st  do you not want us to progress  is it not halal to progress why do you guys refuse to get educated or remove your leaders do you all think its only the north that is violent prone?  anyway, we shall see who blinks first

jason jason,,,, jason u are a really big big big mumu

all we are saying, is that u cannot take advantage because u are in power, if u do then the consequence that would follow would be terrible

alj harem:

jason jason,,,, jason u are a really big big big mumu

all we are saying, is that u cannot take advantage because u are in power, if u do then the consequence that would follow would be terrible

shut ur effing mouth. it stinks!!!! didirin!!!

alj harem:

jason jason,,,, jason u are a really big big big mumu

all we are saying, is that u cannot take advantage because u are in power, if u do then the consequence that would follow would be terrible

What are the consequences?

jason12345:

shut your effing mouth. it stinks!!!! didirin!!!

see this mumu talking itsekiri minority kai u no go kill me oo

chyz:

What are the consequences?

you dey mind the ode . what bloody consequences .

chyz:

What are the consequences?

as for u, the consequences will be there for u to see, i do not need to go to details

alj harem:

see this mumu talking itsekiri minority kai u no go kill me oo

yes, i might be from a minority but i have two majority groups protecting my people . or do you think they would just allow you to match straight through thier land again ode

Good governance does not fear political rhetorics. Only governments that are fraught with nepotism, corruption and disregard for rule of law would shout treason as a result of innocuous statement accredited to Atiku. Real democracy paradoxically empowers citizens to speak freely about their government including how the government could be changed.

alj harem:

as for u, the consequences will be there for u to see, i do not need to go to details

yes go into detail.

jason12345:

yes, i might be from a minority but i have two majority groups protecting my people . or do you think they would just allow you to match straight through thier land again ode

kai, i think u do not know ur place in nigeria at large

so yoruba might protect u  but igbo can this groups even protect themselves from us

jason12345:

yes, i might be from a minority but i have two majority groups protecting my people . or do you think they would just allow you to match straight through thier land again ode

Hey stop speaking Yoruba

You dont have a right to the language

OYO lo wa ooooo

strangerf:

Het stop speaking Yoruba

You dont have a right to the language

jason12345:

yes, i might be from a minority but i have two majority groups protecting my people . or do you think they would just allow you to match straight through thier land again ode

jason u see

chyz:

anyone who replies alj harem is as foolish as him - or even more stupid.

chyz:

So if Adamu Ciroma and Tanko Yakassai are charged for treason along with Atiku, then the decision is fine right?

let me refresh your mind small
Vanguard


Dokubo threatens to kill Judge
By Ise-Oluwa Ige
Posted to the Web: Tuesday, February 06, 2007




*Says: “I am sorry for you. Your family will weep when it happens. They will cry and cry. Your family members cannot escape too. I know where they live and Obasanjo will not be able to protect you.”


ABUJA — “STUPID man! Stupid judge! You want to adjourn this matter again? You want to send me back to the underground cell again? I am sorry for you. Your family will weep when it happens. They will cry and cry. Your family members cannot escape too. I know where they live. And Obasanjo will not be able to protect you.”

These were the exact words of the leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo to Justice Peter Olayiwola of the Federal High Court, Abuja trying him (Dokubo) for treason.

The entire proceeding which lasted less than 45 minutes was tension-soaked with some people running out of the courtroom for fear of being hit by possible stray bullets.
This was shortly after the trial judge who himself was not comfortable with curses and insults heaped on him and the general unruly behaviour of Dokubo ordered the police to take him out of the dock.

The militia leader, in the presence of his wife, children, supporters said nobody including the ploice could move him from the dock and that he was ready to die.
In fact, some of the policemen drafted to the courtroom advised all journalists to leave because, according to them, there could be need to use force to take Dokubo out of the dock.

Before Dokubo was brought to court at about 8:00 a.m, policemen with their vans were sighted at the entrance to the Federal High Court premises located on the OAU, Maitama in Abuja .

But the policemen were, comparatively, not many and the security was relaxed as those entering the OAU Quarters housing the Federal High court were not frisked.
In fact, unlike before, Dokubo’s supporters, friends and relations were freely allowed into the high court premises including the courtroom such that at about 8:20a.m, the court was already filled.

At about 8:25 a.m., supporters that came in their dozens into the high court premises were seen in groups, discussing that the militia leader would be released yesterday.

Some of the lawyers on Dokubo’s defence team joined and even gave life to the rumour to the effect that President Olusegun Obasanjo, at the weekend, had agreed with elders and opinion leaders from the Niger Delta to release Dokubo. The lawyers added that a plane had been chartered to airlift him from Abuja to the creek immediately he regained his freedom

At the time the rumour was making the rounds, the Director of Public Prosecution, Mr Salihu Aliyu, who usually arrives court early and other members of the prosecution team were nowhere to be found.

The Director of Public Prosecution was eventually driven into the court premises at about 9:40a.m with other members of the prosecution team. He was asked to confirm the rumour but he said he was not aware of it. Aliyu later left the courtroom on the excuse that he wanted to go and robe but he was seen outside making several calls. He later came in with a motion paper at about 10:20a.m which he served on the lead counsel to Dokubo.

Initially, it was thought that the application was to drop charges against the militia leader but upon enquiry, it was discovered that the motion was praying the court to grant an order dispensing with his presence in the criminal trial in view of his alleged unruly behaviour in court in the past.

The fresh motion that was served eventually rested the speculations that the Federal Government had agreed to release him yesterday.

But some of the supporters and members of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force who were in court said they had already given the Federal Government till 4:00p.m yesterday to release him or risk further attack in the creeks.

About three minutes after the DPP served Keyamo with the motion paper, both of them entered the judge’s chambers on invitation where the trial judge asked for their views on the fresh motion.

According to Keyamo who spoke with newsmen, he told the judge that he was not going to oppose the application excluding him (Dokubo) from trial because his client, Dokubo, had, indeed, been very rude to the judge in the past and because there was need to protect the integrity of the court.

But he said he told the judge that there was need for government to obey the court order which directed that Dokubo be kept in police custody and treated well and that until the order of court was complied with, they would oppose the application.
He said he assured the judge that both parties would assist in maintaining the integrity of the judiciary.

Keyamo also revealed that the judge himself was worried by the failure by the Federal Government to comply with its order. He said the court confided in them that he had written to the presidency, the SSS but that the right response was not coming.

Dokubo in court

Dokubo was driven into the court premises at exactly 11:44 a.m. in a dark blue 15-seater police bus marked NPF 4077B. He wore a white, round-neck, shirt atop a dark blue jeans.

As he stepped out of the bus and saw his supporters, Asari, who had lost considerable weight, lifted his hands up and started shouting, condemning President Obasanjo’s government, saying: “We must rise against this dictatorship. We must rise up against this dictator.”

As he tried to speak further, one of his five wives in court, Mujahidat Dokubo, did not allow him to say more than this as she moved closer to him, begging him not to shout even as she was shedding tears.

She tried to lay her head on his chest, weeping and begging him not to make any trouble but the militia leader pushed her away and continued shouting, condemning Obasanjo’s government.

As Dokubo moved into the court complex, his wife followed him, begging him to stop the attack on government, reminding him that there was an on-going reconciliation process.
But the militia leader who seemed to have lost his patience with Mujahidat fired a few rhetorical questions at her: “Leave me alone. Am I fighting for you? Why are you complaining? Leave me alone.”

Dokubo inside the courtroom

Dokubo was led into court-room number 5 where his trial was to kick off yesterday. And as he stepped into the courtroom, he saw his supporters, some of them hugged him while some were weeping and wiping their tears with handkerchiefs, Dokubo became charged once again and started shouting:

“I am not going to beg Obasanjo. I am not going to beg him. This struggle will end one day. And this dictatorship will be brought down. This is not democracy. There is no semblance of democracy anywhere. Six months after the court had ordered that I should be kept in police custody, have access to my lawyers, relations and doctors, this government has not complied with the order. Today I was brought from the SSS headquarters to the police headquarters. They were deliberately delaying me. They did not want to bring me to court. They delayed me for more than two hours. Many people who are missing in the country today should be traced to the SSS.

Thousands of people are there, chained to the ground. Many people were taken out today. Nobody knew where they are being taken to. No one knows whether they have died or not. I can give you names: People like Mohammed Ashafa, Mohammed Adams, Yahaya Isah, Useni, Mudashiru, Ishmail, Yusuf and many others. They have been there for more than two years, in chains. No trial. Their families are not aware of their conditions. And we are calling this a democracy. Is this democracy? I have been in confinement for six months. Although I am not kept under chains but what about others?

“What sort of democracy are we talking about. Is this the democracy we fought for? Is this the democracy that many laid their lives down for? The democracy that murdered its people. The democracy that impoverished its people. A democracy where people cannot talk. A democracy where people are in chains. A democracy where somebody will say this is what will be and that is what will be. Is this the democracy we fought for?

The choice of the people have become useless. We no longer have the right to choose whom we want to rule us. It is he who Obasanjo wants to rule that will rule. Is this democracy?

“Abacha regime was 10 times better than this. This is a man who claims to be fighting corruption. We must investigate this man. We must investigate all the evil he has committed against our people. The evil he has committed against all of us. We must bring down this evil system. We must not allow this to continue.”

Immediately he stopped speaking, members of his organisation surrounded him to enable him remove the white shirt he wore to court and wear a black, round-neck shirt which they brought for him. The shirt bore the picture of Isaac Adaka Boro. He was also given a traditional cap to wear.

Dokubo in the dock

At 11.48 a.m, he was docked and the proceedings commenced. Mr Aliyu representing the Federal Government told the court that he had an application seeking to go on with Dokubo’s trial without him being present because of his trendy unruly behaviour.
He said he had already served it on Mr Keyamo, counsel representing Dokubo and that he was ready to move the application.

Although Keyamo confirmed that he had been served, he said: “We will not on our honour oppose this application if the order of this court made in respect of my client has been complied with.

“Although we accept, on our honour, that the accused person has overstepped his boundary and we also are of the view that for the sole reason of the protection of our court, we do not intend to oppose this application but even as we are desirous to protect the dignity of the court, the Federal Government seems not to be bothered. We feel it should be the business of both parties in this case,” he said.

Keyamo further said in view of his explanation, he wanted an order of the court to be complied with first before the government could move its application.

Justice Olayiwola said he appreciated the two issues raised by Keyamo including disobedience to court order and his reaction to the pending application but that he wanted him to respond to the one on the Federal Government application first.
Justice Olayiwola said he would listen to Keyamo on the issue of disobedience to court order after dispensing with the Federal Government’s application.

Keyamo saw the position of the judge as a trap as he said he would not allow that application to be moved except and until the issue of disobedience was thrashed out. He told the judge that there was a pending committal application and that he would want that application taken first.

But when the judge seemed not to show interest in that, Keyamo said he would want to react by way of counter-affidavit to the application brought by the Federal Government. He said he would list the number of times the Federal Government had disobeyed court order as reasons why the application could not be heard.

He added that he needed about 24 hours to respond and that he could come today for the hearing of the application. The judge said he was entitled to respond by way of counter-affidavit and that he would adjourn the case on that account.

It was at this juncture that Dokubo became furious, facing the judge and asked as if to confirm what he heard that the matter was to be adjourned again. He said he was not interested in adjournment and that he was also not interested in any judicial proceedings that would make the judge pronounce that the case should be heard in his absence but that trial must go on.

But when the judge was asking lead counsel in the case to suggest a date for the hearing of the application, Dokubo faced the judge once again and said: “This decision to adjourn this matter again is like toying with my life, my ambition, my dream. I tell you, all these sufferings that Obasanjo is inflicting on me today, I will inflict, times ten on everybody that participates in this proceeding.”

Immediately, both the DPP and Keyamo suggested a date in February which the judge said was not convenient for him, Dokubo faced the judge again and said: “It is not convenient for you? But what sort of justice is this? Is this justice? You are toying with my life.”

Looking at the judge who was smiling, he added: “You are laughing? When it will happen, your family will cry. They will cry and cry. I am just restraining myself. Your laughter will soon turn to tears.”

The trial judge hardly allowed him to finish when he charged back at him, saying: “What is the meaning of this? This is not a Gestapo trial.”
He motioned to the DPP and the police and said: “Get the police to send him out of this court,” to which Dokubo said no way.

This was the beginning of the drama as the police moved towards Dokubo, some of them with their AK 47 rifle. Some of the policemen who were earlier outside the court room entered to assist their colleagues.

When Dokubo saw them, he re-positioned himself, raised his two hands up, held the dock and paced round it, saying: “No way. Nobody can remove me from here. Come, come. Nobody. I say, nobody can remove me from here.”

The judge was watching from the bench as Dokubo continued his drama in the dock.
At this juncture, the policemen ordered journalists and all others in court to move out of the court-room even as they moved towards Dokubo to drag him out of the court-room.
In fact, some journalists ran out almost immediately for fear of being hit by stray bullets in case of any accidental discharge.

When the judge realised that the development could degenerate into a dangerous one, he told the policemen to leave him alone.
It was at this juncture that Dokubo faced the judge again, threatening: “I have stayed in the underground cell for six months. You are toying with my life. Okay, when your people start visiting mortuary and cemetery, this joy will turn to sadness.

“I know where your family live. And I know they will not escape. Your family will weep when it will happen. I will see how Obasanjo will protect you. Stupid man. Stupid judge.
“Let me remind you? Has Obasanjo been able to protect the expatriates that he will now protect you. I tell you, your family will weep when it happens,” he added. At this juncture, the atmosphere was charged.

Although counsel were able to agree on February 19, 2007, the judge hurriedly read a brief ruling adjourning hearing of the application till March 6, this year.
Immediately the matter was adjourned till March 6, Dokubo became charged again, saying may be before the adjourned date, “when you look at the grave, you will be found there,” he added.

Immediately after the court rose, he was led out of the courtroom.
He asked to meet with his family members. He was allowed to do so in the courtroom of Justice Binta Murtala Nyarko.

He came out later to vilify the government further, saying: “I have not taken any medication for six whole months. I was put in underground cell. Even Mandela was not incarcerated in an underground cell for six months. Obasanjo is a wicked man. Mandela did not stay in solitary confinement for six month. My weight was 139 kg when I was in police custody but now, I am 93 kg. This is a democracy where a court cannot enforce its order. This man is so evil.”

He was eventually led into the waiting bus that brought him into the court premises.
He was driven out of the court premises at 12:45pm, singing a chorus which his supporters joined him to sing thus: “one more river to cross, Niger Delta freedom fighter, one more river to cross.”


The police on Tuesday arrested the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheedeen Asari Dokubo, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

His deputy, Mr. Takuro Beeson, who claimed to have accompanied him to the state police command headquarters on a “friendly invitation,” added that the NDVF leader had been taken to Abuja.

Although he said he could not explain why Dokubo was arrested, our correspondent gathered that it might not be unconnected with the rising tension in the Niger Delta.

A group, the Ijaw Youth Council, had on Friday threatened to attack Britons and British facilities in the Niger Delta if the British Police failed to release the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who was held in London on Thursday for alleged money laundering.

The threat forced the Presidency to put security agencies in the area on the alert.

Some of the multinational oil companies in the region were said to have withdrawn their British employees, especially those in Bayelsa State.

The NDVF is at the forefront of groups agitating for the control of oil resources by the Niger Delta people.

Narrating how the NDVF leader was arrested, Beeson said, “By 12pm today (Tuesday) the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sam Adetunji invited him to his office. When we arrived, he said his attention was needed in Abuja.

“The two of us went to honour the invitation but when we got to the commissioner of police, I was asked to excuse them. Later, the commissioner put him in a car with siren and they took him away in my presence.”

He condemned the arrest, warning that the NDVF members had resolved to disrupt oil exploration in the Niger Delta if the Federal Government failed to release Dokubo within 24 hours.

He said, “We are going to shut down all the flow stations in Port-Harcourt and in the whole of the Niger-Delta if we don’t see him within 24 hours.

“As I am talking to you, all our members have been mobilised for that purpose”.

He absolved the NDVF of any blame any crisis in the Niger Delta, saying, “Nothing has been happening in Port-Harcourt, nothing. Alhaji did not do anything to anybody.”

A source close to authorities in Rivers State said the decision to “invite” Dokubo was to extract a promise from him that his group would not engage in any act that could lead to a breakdown of law and order in the Niger Delta.

When the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Adetunji, was contacted at 2.29pm, he asked our correspondents to call back. Subsequent calls indicated that his phone had been switched off.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Ireju Barasua, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, could also not be reached.

However, a senior police officer said that Dokubo was arrested due to his position as a former president of the IYC.

Also on Tuesday, the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State said the arrest of the governor was a national disgrace.

Consequently, the party asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate the allegations thoroughly and make its findings public.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Kikile Esuene, told our correspondents that if the allegation was true, it would have made nonsense of the clamour by the Ijaw for resource control and fairness in the running of the affairs of the nation.

Esuene, who condemned the threat by the IYC to attack Britons in the Niger Delta, however, said the governor should be treated fairly.

Also, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Magaji Dambatta, said the arrest should serve as a deterrent to corrupt public office holders in the country.

Meanwhile, the Shell Petroleum Development Company and Chevron Nigeria Limited have advised their staff in the region to be cautious “in line with worldwide standards.”

THE PUNCH, Wednesday, September 21





starting from the pioneers.I mean the so called what ever in the south that have used similar words to bully the country.
About your question on Atiku and co.for me they should be tried.but not excluding the others.

yeswecan:

anyone who replies alj harem is as foolish as him - or even more silly.

nowecan't u are an iddeeiot for that statement, i am simply tell u the reality and u are here saying rubbish

jason12345:

@ haka nai and harem

the way you northerners think is soo wierd . one of you is threaten violence and the other is trying to justify treasonable acts na wa for you northerners ooo! why are you guys hell bent on taking us to the 15th century when we are in the 21st  do you not want us to progress  is it not halal to progress why do you guys refuse to get educated or remove your leaders do you all think its only the north that is violent prone?  anyway, we shall see who blinks first

same way you southerners think mr. i do not agree with alj harem violence stance and am not an advocate.To think i justify Atiku's action is not what i am saying.I am saying if the president sees this treasonable then we should have more names regardless.Others have done it before them and records are out there start with them and move up.fairness.don't always make it look like you goons are always right even when you screw up.cause for me the thing is anytime a southerner screws up the country it is said he needs more attention and all that cheap PR thing.If a southern or Northerner messes up regardless the justice system should really be blind to sides.
About education or removing our leaders.I am educated (80% of my family is am from the core north) and about the leaders,same crap like yours.so asking me is like asking yourself.The south is also violent prone i know.people will go to new dimensions to defend themselves.I hate the violence and will not condone any.As such count me out.Not that i am afraid of you or your treat but because i have friends amongst the southerners and i believe taking a life unjustly is wrong.

haka_nai:

let me refresh your mind small

Answer the question.

chyz:

Answer the question.

read what i posted before you ask me to repeat again.

haka_nai:

read what i posted before you ask me to repeat again.

Ok. should make ur posts readable. Well guess what? Ur wish of Atiku being tried is going to come true! Isn't it great!

People on NL are hilarious! Very funny indeed.

chyz:

Ok. should make your posts readable. Well guess what? your wish of Atiku being tried is going to come true! Isn't it great!

yeap! if others are not ignored abi!!!