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....