{"id":42463,"date":"2021-05-06T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=42463"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:57:02","slug":"keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo","title":{"rendered":"Keyamo explains why he supported MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Asari Dokubo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has explained why he represented Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo and groups like the Niger Delta Avengers in the past.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was not because he believed in Nigeria\u2019s breakup, but because he believed in the right to self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>Keyamo stated this while speaking on an NTA flagship programme titled, \u2018One-on-One\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cNo one can stand before me and tell me about human rights. I have seen everything. I represented almost all separatist groups in this country like MASSOB, Niger Delta Volunteers Force, the Niger Delta Avengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI represented all of them in court. When Asari Dokubo was arrested, when he was calling for a division at that time, I did not support the division, of course, let me be clear. I was only talking about the right to self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January 2003, Keyamo was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, because of his activities as the leader of Movement for the Actualisation of the Future Republic of the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has explained why he represented Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo and groups like the Niger Delta Avengers in the past. He said it was not because he believed in Nigeria\u2019s breakup, but because he believed in the right to self-determination. Keyamo stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,809,297,3910,4097,254],"class_list":["post-42463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-asari-dokubo","tag-keyamo","tag-massob","tag-niger-delta-avengers","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keyamo explains why he supported MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Asari Dokubo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has explained why he represented Niger Delta militant, A ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keyamo explains why he supported MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Asari Dokubo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has explained why he represented Niger Delta militant, A ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-06T17:11:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-609411a444437.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"705\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Keyamo explains why he supported MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Asari Dokubo\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-06T17:11:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-609411a444437.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Asari Dokubo\",\"Keyamo\",\"MASSOB\",\"Niger Delta Avengers\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/keyamo-explains-why-he-supported-massob-niger-delta-avengers-asari-dokubo\",\"name\":\"Keyamo explains why he supported MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers, Asari Dokubo - 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