The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), also known as The Pyrates Confraternity, has denied any affiliation with a group known as the Association of Humble and Obedient Youths (AHOY).
The announcement comes after the AHOY group released a video to associate its origin and existence with the Pyrates Confraternity, especially with their seven founding fathers, Prof. Wole Soyinka and others.
According to members of the Pyrates Confraternity, the video constitutes the most impudent and brazen episode of piracy on the high seas.
They, therefore, said that the attempt to legitimise and link AHOY to their association is pathetic and abject failure.
NAS emphasised that the inaccuracies in AHOY’s account confirm that their objectives were disingenuously criminal as many of their statements are serious, untrue and highly inflammatory, noting that some of the statements carry serious and continuing threats to the Pyrates Confraternity reputation and their collective and individual memberships’ integrity.
NAS Capoon, Abiola Owoaje, during a media briefing in Lagos, yesterday, said all claims by the authors of the video or the organisation that seek this linkage are denied and rejected as there is no truth whatsoever in the assertions that they have sought to disseminate.
He added that the video is seen as a brazen attempt to tarnish the image and reputation of their organisation, an action aimed at diminishing their significant positive contributions to the development of the Nigerian and global society over the past 70 years that can’t be ignored.
He, therefore, urged the authors and collaborators of the group to cease and desist forthwith from all actions that seek or purport to continue the dissemination of any further accounts associating themselves with their organisation or any member.
