Tribune
18 May 2011
Leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has a made a U-turn on his decision for his group not to have anything to do with amnesty programme, asking the Federal Government to consider his group in the benefit package.
Dokubo-Asari had rejected the Federal Government’s offer at the initial stage on reason that himself and his followers were not criminals, but freedom fighters and saying that, as their activities had contributed to the development of modern-day Niger Delta, they deserved to be part of the goodies of the amnesty programme.
The former president of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), who was irked by the recent round of armed struggle in the oil and gas-rich region, spoke during a rally, marking the memorial of Ijaw national hero, Isaac Adaka Boro, in Port Harcourt
The self-styled freedom fighter also admonished President Goodluck Jonathan to make delivery of good governance and rule of law, even as he called on him to reject the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Auta as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.
“We have not been part of the amnesty under the late President Umaru Yar’Adua because the programme contradicts our belief as genuine fighters who are not out to fight only for our own interest.
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