Alaji Dokubo Asari the Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, was Jailed since September 2005 on charge of treason by the President Obasanjo Administration.
Asari was brought to court and pleaded guilty, after publicly accusing the Government 2 be illegitimate, call for the disintegration of Africa’s top Oil Producer in order to gain control on the oil resources, and call all the Ijaw people, a vast group living in the riverine Delta where most of the oil is extracted, to form their own country.
The Nigerian president Obasanjo’s administration arrested him, and accused him to represent a threat to National Security
His arrest caused anger among Ijaw youth, whom started a harder struggle, forming more militias groups aiming to kidnap expatriates disrupt oil facilities while demanding for his release…
Last Thursday the 14th of June, he was released on bail, from Abuja, and arrived Saturday morning in his native “River” State at Port Harcourt Air force Base, where thousands of people came from all over the Delta region to welcome him.
He attended a brief meeting in the House of chief G. Douglas, a politician supporting the Ijaw cause, where he made a speech stating that if the new government will not come to terms with the Ijaw agenda, NDVF will go back to the creeks ready to fight for their demands.
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