Niger-Delta armed activist, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari released

According to reports, the defunct Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, who was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic on Tuesday November 2013, has now been released. Sources say his release was as a result of the active intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr. Festus Keyamo, Asari-Dokubo's lawyer on Wednesday urged the president to intervene directly to "ensure that no harm is done to Asari-Dokubo." Some say the President played a major role in his release as he sent a private jet to bring him back to Nigeria, but we don't know how true that is.

Similarly, members of the Niger Delta People Salvation Front (NDPSF) and NDPVF have condemned what they tagged: unjust and unjustifiable arrest of our leader by the government of Republic of Benin.