Ex Militants Become Lawmakers in Rivers State

Some of the horrific Niger Delta militants, who accepted the Federal Government’s Amnesty, have been elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly, The late President Musa Yar’Adua had in 2009 signed a annunciation granting Amnesty to Niger Delta militants, who agreed to lay down their arms and embrace peace.

The deal offered an unconditional pardon and cash payments to fighters who surrendered their arms and assembled at screening centers located in many parts of the oil-rich region within 60 days.
It targeted up to 10,000 militants whose attacks in the six Niger Delta states cost the country a third of its oil production and revenue to be incured.

Asari-Dokubo Issues New Threat - ''Buhari’s Victory might Force Us to Return to Militancy''

Former Niger-Delta militant, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, says with the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan, himself and fellow militants may be forced to return to the creeks.

Asari-Dokubo, who is known to have hails from the same state as Jonathan, said in a statement by his spokesperson "Rex Anighoro" according to PUNCH that, the voting pattern showed that the South-West and the North ganged up against the South-South and South-East geo-political zones. And it was unfair that the minorities were being emasculated by the majority ethnic groups.

He said he feared that the government of the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, would be barbrous... Asari-Dokubo said: