Brave Dickson
Alhaji Dokubo Asari, a former Niger Delta militant has said his people in Kalabari are backward today over lack of vision.
Asari made this known during the 80th memorial of Chief Tiriya Kio Dick Tom Big Harry who founded the Kio’s compound in Harry’s Town in Degema Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “the reason our people want to become kings and chiefs is for them to eat alone and oppress others. Our fathers did not do that, they had vision.
“There are people who are still living in the darkness of the Kalabari they created and not the Kalabari our fathers left for us. And that Kalabari they created is a very backward Kalabari.
“Our fathers had everything despite the fact that they did not attend Western school. Today, the Kalabari man is very poor who can not stand in public and talk.
“My brothers and sisters, let’s lead by example. Don’t allow our father’s name to die.
“We are a people that have abandoned our yesterday. We are a people that do not have a direction. We are a people that do not know where we are going.
“Because we are not dreaming, that is why we don’t have future. All we do always is thinking about ourselves alone.
“The remembrance of our father’s anniversary should change us for the better.
“We should think and plan big. Until we start to be who we are, we will not be great. Until we start to love ourselves and make sacrifices, nothing is going to work for us.
“We were mocking Bayelsans. Today, they have gone ahead of us. All the oceanic areas in Bayelsa that were not motorable; today, vehicles can go there. Yet Kula and Ke communities in Kalabariland, vehicle cannot go to those places.
“Let us bring back the vision of our fathers.”
