Former Niger Delta militant leader, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has described the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) as a “faceless” organisation.
He also dismissed the group’s reported plan to resume fresh hostilities to save Christians from Boko Haram violence.
“There is nothing like MEND,” Dokubo-Asari said while fielding questions from journalists during a visit to the State House on Monday.
Information Nigeria recalls that the MEND, through its spokesman, Gbomo Jomo, on Sunday said it would from May 31, in an exercise codenamed Operation Barbarossa, attack mosques and Islamic clerics
But Dokubo-Asari in his reaction, said the current MEND was only a media creation adding that the authentic one existed as a pressure group for releasing him and former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha from detention.
Dokubo-Asari said, “I am a Muslim, I do not subscribe to attacking religious centres of worship. I do not believe that MEND exists; I have always said there is nothing like MEND.
“MEND is just the figment of the imagination of people, it’s on the Internet and newspapers, but who is MEND? Nobody can really tell you who MEND is.
“MEND was formed, only for the purpose of my release and that of Alamieyeseigha when we were in detention. MEND leaders are not known anywhere like other organisations like the Ijaw Youth Council, OPC and so on.
“MEND actually is faceless because Henry Okah himself has denied that he is not the leader of MEND in court under oath” he stated.
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