Amachree said that since the DSS had already asked him to turn himself in at the nearest security post or police station and from there they can go ahead, he should be wise to do so, “but if he decides to be a fugitive, that is left to him but the long arm of the law will get to him whenever.”
However, the former director noted that Nigerians must wait for the DSS to charge Igboho and his associates to know the exact charges preferred against them.
On the time it would take the secret police to charge the arrested persons to court, he said, “I don’t know but it will be very soon.”
Amachree opined that, self-determination, if it must be done, should be carried out in a proper way. “People can go to the legislature, people can organise themselves and talk about it and agree without violence, but when you start to carry arms; when you start to accumulate different kinds of arms, then you are not doing self-determination. What you want to start is insurgency or a separatist fight and I don’t think any responsible government will sit down and allow you accumulate arms and attack it,” he said.
Asked if DSS acted in order by invading Igboho’s house, Amachree said; “Well, we want one Nigeria and if all kinds of people are coming as if the country is a failed state, the security agencies will come out and show everybody that the government is still in power and there is no reason for people to start behaving as if there is no government at all. That’s what the DSS has done.”