A group, the Grassroots Connect for Restoration (GrassCore), yesterday slammed a former member of the Upper Chamber of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Paul Eris, popularly known as General Ogunboss, over his open letter to the president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, alleging that the state governor, Hon Seriake Dickson is disloyal and part of a plot to assassinate him.
The group described the accusation levelled against the state governor, Hon Seriake Dickson as irresponsible and another calculated attempt to create a bad relationship between the governor and the president.
In a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa and signed by its national coordinator, Hon Nyenye Kuro Mathias, the group called on security agencies to investigate the ex-militant leader for alleged perjury.
“How can a man like that claim that a sitting governor, Hon Seriake Dickson is disloyal to the president? He is being used by some politicians to throw the state into a state of insecurity,” the group said.
According to the group,the preliminary investigation by the group showed that the refusal of the State Governor,Hon.Seriake Dickson,to be drawn into the local conflict between the ex-militant leader and his boys at the Peremabiri community over the sharing of the Agip N5million meant for fuelling community generating set is responsible for the false claims.
“We are aware on good authority that some youths of Peremabiri community interested in freeing their community from the clutches of slavery by Ogunboss had engaged him in deadly battles.Though the State Commissioner of Police,Hillary Okpara,had intervened and finding a lasting solution,the aggrieved ex-militant leader felt he has a sole right over the community and wanted to draw the state government into the crises.”
“The ex-militant leader,who is widely known as part of the dark era of violence during the last administration,is under investigation by different security agencies for alleged cultism and killings.What the people should ask is how he got to the top of his militant camp before the amnesty?How did the notorious Igodo die?Who are the boys that engaged Ogunboss in violent youth leadership clash in Peremabiri community?Were they not boys he armed and trained for nefarious activities in Southern Ijaw councils?what happen to the stipends paid by the Amnesty office to these aggrieved Ogunboss Youths?Truth must be told,he lack credibility.”
“If the past issues of Igodo killings and militant era is hunting Ogunboss,he should not draw the State Governor and his aides into it.He should open his eyes and see that the a new and sustainable peace is existing in the state.In the new Bayelsa,under the Dickson administration,the use of security and government power is over.Rule of law must be followed.”
On the loyalty of Governor Seriake Dickson to President Goodluck Jonathan,the group noted that though the likes of the Former Militant leader may not know what loyalty entails and assured that Dickson is loyal.
Source; http://leadership.ng/news/381406/group-slams-ex-mend-leader-letter-jonathan
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