The All Progressives Congress has asked President
Goodluck Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what
Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, was doing on the plane
that illegally ferried US$9.3m to South Africa,
where Asari Dokubo, another Nigerian and an
Israeli were arrested, according to a published
report.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by
its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said since the federal
government has taken ownership of the funds by
saying the National Security Adviser issued the
end-user certificate for the arms purchase, it
stands to reason that the same government will
know the involvement of all those aboard the
plane.
It said, therefore, that the federal government
has a lot of questions to answer on the whole
deal, including whether Asari Dokubo is the
contractor or the end user, who he was procuring
arms for and for what purpose.
APC said the questions become pertinent because
even the NSA, who issued the end-user
agreement for the purchase, does not and cannot
purchase arms for any of the armed services. The
Service Chiefs have separate budgets from the
NSA for arms purchase.
It said, ”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.
”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?”
It added that its Press Release on Tuesday, had
further asked President Jonathan to come clean
on the US$9.3m and US$5.7m deals.
“We also asked him to tell Nigerians the identity
of the two Nigerians who were on the plane that
illegally ferried money to South Africa. Now that
the Nigerians are known, and they are the
President’s men, the story has taken a new
dimension,” it said.
APC said since those who claim to be fighting for
Nigeria’s unity may actually be the ones working
against it, since those who lay claim to patriotism
may actually be any but patriotic, it is more
urgent now, than ever, for the National Assembly
to take these cash-for-arms deals seriously,
instead of dismissing the concerns of Nigerians on
the basis of some rules as the House of
Representatives has glibly done.
The party commended the media for keeping the
story alive and for working hard to unearth the
identity of the Nigerians aboard the ill-fated plane
that illegally flew money into another country in
violation of that country’s laws and all known
tenets of decency.
It called 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.

bruno419:
his role is to secure the arms from apc and boko haramites.......














cramjokes.....lmao

phemmyjohnson:


How cum Asari Dokubo has been invincible on the media news regarding this deal..

bruno419:
coz u have got no prove of seeing him in the jet....or hav u gotten any pix

phemmyjohnson:


Just as anybodi got any pix of how the $9.5m was loaded in the suitcase??

phemmyjohnson:


http://www.punchng.com/news/explain-dokubo-asaris-role-in-seized-9-3m-arms-deal-apc/