Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has threatened to petition world leaders over Federal Government’s failure to arrest former agitator, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, “despite glaring evidence that he is a threat to the Nigerian state and people.”

In a statement, yesterday, by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the group expressed concern that the President Bola Tinubu administration “seems to be afraid of Asari-Dokubo despite the fact that the ex-agitator is threatening to destroy the country if arrested for unlawful possession of assault rifles and threat to the life and property of Igbo people in the country.”

HURIWA observed that the current government “is creating a monster out of Asari-Dokubo, who dared the military to arrest him, and (added) he would crumble Nigeria’s oil production.”

The organisation had previously issued a 72-hour ultimatum to government to arrest Asari-Dokubo over his suspected link to the ‘unknown gunmen’ phenomenon in the South-East or risk unprecedented protests that would reverberate all over the country.

The ex-freedom fighter, who visited the President last month, had in a viral video reportedly “brandished multiple AK-47 rifles and threatened to kill Igbo because they supported Labour Party’s Peter Obi in the February 25, 2023 presidential poll against his preferred candidate in the person of Tinubu, the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

The group continued: “Is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu afraid of Asari-Dokubo so much so that he is threatening to destroy Nigeria? We call on the President to immediately disarm this Asari-Dokubo and his mercenaries before he becomes like the Wagner founder in Russia.

“The Federal Government must take steps to rein in Asari-Dokubo and his threats against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“HURIWA will be writing to world leaders on these threats to Igbos and Nigeria by Asari-Dokubo and we are asking all Nigerians to take interest in how the Federal Government, beginning from Muhammadu Buhari’s junta to the current dispensation, is building a Frankenstein monster out of Asari-Dokubo.

“He has also threatened to attack us if we stage protests against him. Let the Nigerian government take action as soon as possible. We are meeting with other CSOs to restrategise our next move, keeping in mind the need to keep our members safe from attacks by a man, who publicly confesses that he is armed with deadly weapons.”

It, therefore, called on the Department of State Services (DSS), Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force to provide protection for citizens staging peaceful protests