Emma Amaize
16 July 2009
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The militant group promised to disarm voluntarily if after meeting the aforementioned conditions, the government at the federal, state and local levels were ready to show accountability for the money coming into the national treasury and finally, propose a time table for the practice of true federalism.
Okah's authority in the struggle
Government officials who underrated Okah's power in the Niger_Delta struggle would have realized by now that they were mistaken, as the past two years, was not easy for them in the management of the avoidable crisis that attended his detention and secret trial.
He is the only living freedom fighter that has the authority to call for ceasefire in the "war" by MEND and that is why he was able to call cease fire and they obeyed 24 hours after his release.
Before his arrest in Angola , he gave tacit support to Yar'Adua's peace deal but maintained it would be a submission to slavery for him to accept peace without justice
"We would rather die as free men than live as peaceful slaves. Yar'Adua must do what is right and give us not just what we demand, but what is just. He must return our lands and dignity after which words like amnesty will make meaning to us", he once declared in an online response to Vanguard.
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