Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has been arrested. He was arrested on Tuesday evening at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos shortly after returning from a trip to Germany.

Asari-Dokubo had traveled to Frankfurt for medical checkup on May 23 and returned home on an Alitalia flight at about 8.00 p.m.
Shortly after his arrival, officials of the State Security Service (SSS) picked the ex-militant leader up at about 8.30 p.m, seized his passport and his telephones and whisked him away to an unknown destination.

The reason for the arrest could not be determined as at press time, just as destination of the ex-militant leader after he was whisked away from the airport.

Reacting to the arrest, Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo described it as “a totally negative approach to the issue of amnesty for the Niger Delta militants.”
Keyamo said Asari-Dokubo was not a militant, contending that his arrest belied the Federal Government’s claim to resolve the Niger Delta crisis.
“I call on the Federal Government to immediately release him. There’s no justifiable cause to arrest him,” the lawyer said.

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Do u think the Arrest is Right? Lets know your view Nairalanders!!

Arresting asari is very wrong,it cant help the naija deltar issue at all,instead it will make it even worst, why cant fg find a more suitable way of dealing with this things?well we are dealing with a goverment that are soo dull and inhuman to the nigerdeltans demands,

The timing is very wrong. Even if he is a security threat, they can place him close watch

Nairaland, every other blog and sites reported he was Arrested in Benin Republic not in Nigeria. Where did u get ur own news?