Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Transcript of Henry Okah's Interview on Al Jazeera

Background to below

Daily Trust
6 October 2011


interview

Henry Okah: On Saturday morning, just a day after the attack [October 20 2010], a very close associate of President Jonathan called me and explained to me that there had been a bombing in Nigeria and that President Jonathan wanted me to reach out to the group, Mend, and get them to retract the earlier statement they had issued claiming the attacks.

They wanted to blame the attacks on northerners who are trying to fight against him [Jonathan] to come back as president and if this was done, I was not going to have any problems with the South African government. I declined to do this and few hours later I was arrested. It was based on their belief that I was going to do that that President Jonathan issued a statement claiming that MEND didn't carry out the attack because they were expecting a kind of retraction from the group ....

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