The Kalabari Media Forum has commended the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara for recognising Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo Asari as the Amayanabo of Torusarama Piri, describing the gesture as the best end-of-year gift to the Kalabari people.
A communique issued after its 2024 end-of-year summit and signed by the Coordinator of the Forum, Alabo Dagogo Clinton and the Secretary, Harry Awolayeofori Macmorrison, the group comprising seasoned media practitioners drawn from all parts of Kalabari Kingdom, notes that the gesture should encourage the people to get back to the drawing board and consolidate on existing inter and intra communal peace within the region.
According to the statement, Torusarama Piri was the first place where the founding fathers of Kalabari converged from different cultures, tribes and backgrounds, adding that those saying that the Kalabari people are not united should have a rethink
” As the different founding fathers were able to form a formidable ethnic nationality, modern day Kalabari should be able to sink the differences between the constituent communities and with other non-Kalabari speaking neighbours to achieve the needed internal cohesion for development”… It adds.
The Forum further congratulated Alabo Asari Dokubo on his recognition and urged him to use the opportunity to do even more for the Kalabari people and Rivers State as a whole.
The Kalabari media Forum is happy with the recognition of Dokubo Asari not because he is one of the patrons of the group, but he is about the most Kalabari-centric figure alive, who has also committed enormous resources to the protection of the Kalabari people.
They urged the Kalabari Se Kobiri and the entire people of the ethnic nationality to work with Alabo Dokubo Asari and put to rest speculations that some persons have exploited the interest of the Kalabari people over the years.
