King Amachree University Owned By Asari-dokubo In Republic of Benin

Asari-Dokubo already has soccer
institutions in Benin and Nigeria train youth
free of charge.
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.
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