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SSS quizzes Dokubo
VINCENT ADEKOYE, Benin
SECURITY agents at the weekend quizzed the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari.
Dokubo-Asari was reportedly taken before a top official of the Rivers State Directorate of the State Security (SSS).
Dokubo who was interrogated and later released after serious warning, was on his way to the main campus of the
University of Benin (UNIBEN) to attend the Ijaw National Cultural Day organised by the students.
Narrating his experience, Dokubo said "before I came to Benin City, the Director of SSS invited me and started
questioning me on my mission to Benin City. They finally said if I come here, I should not instigate you students.
And I simply replied that I would not, but that the students are already instigated by the poor condition of learning
on campuses.
"The situation in Nigerian universities has gone so bad that we have reached a point where all Nigerian students
will say no to oppression. We have reached a point where all strata of the education sector will not close their
eyes to oppression. The students and we have remained under-privileged and oppressed because we have refused to
take our destiny in our hands. The Nigerian students that I know in the past do not involve themselves in political
thuggery and show unnecessary respect to those in government," he said.
On the agitation by the Ijaws, he disclosed that though Ijaws have fought and lost many battles for self determination
in the past, we are getting close to our destination this time around. We the Ijaws are the class of the oppressed
people. We are coming from a very far place, but we are getting close to our destination and the destination is
the land of freedom."
The NDVPF leader gained international renown recently when he issued an October 1, 2004 ultimatum to oil companies
in the Niger Delta to close shop or face the force of his military assault.
The threat alone shut up world oil price to above an unprecedented $50 a barrel.
Two meetings in Abuja with top Federal Government officials, including President Olusegun Obasanjo, ended the threat
even as government seized the opportunity to broker peace between Dokubo and other Niger Delta warlords to ensure
peace in the highly volatile oil-rich region.
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