Asari-Dokubo establishes university, names it after King Amachree

According to new reports, former Niger
Delta militant and current leader of the
Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force,
Asari Dokubo, is now a proud owner of a
university in Benin Republic...
From Premium Times
The leader of the Niger Delta
People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF,
Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined
the swelling rank of private
university proprietors with his
establishment of a university in
the neighbouring Republic of
Benin.
Mr. Asari-Dokubo, who already
owns a soccer academy in the
West African country and another
one in Abuja, said the university,
which will be known as King
Amachree African University,
KAAU, had already been
accredited to commence degree
programmes beginning
September 2014.
He told PREMIUM TIMES in an interview
in Abuja that the proposed university,
named after his ancestor, was a product
of his two existing institutions in Benin
Republic, namely King Amachree
Automobile/ICT Royal Academy and
King Amachree Arts Academy. Both of
them, he added, currently award
Diploma to their students.
Mr. Asari-Dokubo said he chose to
establish the institutions in Benin
Republic because he does not only live
there, but has adopted it as his
country.
“What we have now, we are awarding
only diploma now. “By next September,
Insha Allah, the university will start,”
Mr. Asari-Dokubo, who dropped out of
University of Calabar, he said.
“For now we have King Amachree
Automobile/ICT Royal Academy and
King Amachree Arts Academy. Two of
them were merged. We have merged
the two of them into king Amachree
African University.
“King Amachree is my great ancestor.
He was king of the Kingdom of new
Calabar.”
On his soccer academy, the 50 year old
Mr. Asari-Dokubo, an indigene of Rivers
State, who refused to be tagged a
former militant, said it was established
to train the youth in soccer free of
charge.
“We plan to engage the youths. It is
free. We have a soccer academy in
Abuja and we have another one in
Republic of Benin,” he said.
More Nigerians are forced to go to
Benin Republic, Ghana, Togo and other
neigbhouring countries to acquire
education due to the incessant labour
disputes and industrial actions within
the Nigerian university system as well
as the deplorable state of education in
the country.
Currently, students of both the federal
and state universities in Nigeria are at
home due to the strike embarked upon
by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, over the refusal of
the Federal Government to honour its
2009 agreement with the union.
Other unions within the education
sector, including the Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities,
SSANU, have also embarked on
solidarity strike while the Nigeria Union
of Teachers, NUT, and Non-Academic
Staff Union, NASU, are reportedly on
the verge of doing towing that path.
Students of the over 50 private
universities in Nigeria, whose fees can
only be afforded the rich, are however,
in session.
Mr. Asari-Dokubo is, like former Niger
Delta militants enjoying massive
patronage from the current
administration, believe to be very
wealthy but his source of income is
largely unknown.
There were speculation he made his
fortune stealing crude oil in the Niger
Delta. But he denied engaging in such
practices, telling PREMIUM TIMES he
had never been part of any act capable
of endangering the Delta