Omehia also travelled to Abuja on 4 June with Bayelsa Governor Timire Sylva and Delta Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to petition President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to release the gaoled militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari on health grounds...
Some officials in Abuja suggest that they might release the Delta militant Mujahid Dokubo Asari from custody to calm the Delta storm as other militants agitate for his release...
MEND's push to the east would involve a tie-up with militias in Rivers State linked to the detained warlord Mujahid Dokubo Asari...
Reporters kept receiving mysterious e-mails from a group claiming to represent Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari the Rivers State militant whose hatred for Governor Peter Odili prompted the 2004 Delta crisis...
An e-mail was sent on his behalf the night before the release saying the decision had been jointly taken with amongst others his Warri wife Inye Dokubo Asari...
The authorities had been bracing themselves for a new round of fighting following the arrest of two key Delta leaders Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha and the Ijaw nationalist-cum-gangster leader Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari in November...
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- WEST AFRICA
Politics there will be dominated by the arrest and trial of Dokubo Asari and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha both so tarnished that they may not be able to galvanise a new Delta resistance...
Ijaw activists note that the operation followed the arrest of Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari and several militants in the Ijaw Youth Congress who along with Alamieyeseigha have been agitating for a greater share of oil revenues for oil-producing states...
The Ijaw nationalist-cum-gangster leader Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari boasted of planning an armed insurrection against Obasanjo (AC Vol 46 No 23); his recent arrest was followed by violent threats but little more than a few brief take-overs of oil facilities...
Last month security forces arrested Ijaw militia leader Alhaji Dokubo Asari and several of his lieutenants on treason charges; Odili's agents have been interviewing several others...
