Vetan film maker, Chief Eddie Ugboma (OON) was one of the Nollywood icons who merited and was adorned with the ever coveted Lifetime Achievement Award at the just concluded 9th edition of AMAA. He received the award happily like other colleagues on the same category, but Chief Ugboma who is known for his contemporary historian synopsis and films did not just walk away, he disclosed his intention to shoot a film that people reveal will be epoch making in Africa. He challenged Bayelsa state government to budget fund for the making of a film that will center on the life of Bayelsa citizen called, Adaka Boro. 

“I am a veteran filmmaker, I believe in contemporary Nigerian stories, so I give to the government to get ready for the making of Adaka Boro,” he stated. The statement was followed with a resounding applause from the audience. Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, fondly called Boro, was a celebrated Niger Delta nationalist and Nigerian civil war hero. He was one of the pioneers of minority rights activism in Nigeria. According to sources, he was many parts and different things to different people, such as a University students’ leader at University of Nsukka, a teacher, policeman and Nigerian army officer. 

 He was said to have left school to lead an armed protest against the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefitted mainly the federal government of Nigeria and a remote Eastern Nigeria regional government. He believed that the people of the area deserved a fairer share of proceeds of the oil wealth. Adaka Boro formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, an armed militia with members consisting mainly of his fellow Ijaw ethnic group, the source disclosed, and declared the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966 and gallantly battled the Federal forces for twelve days but were finally routed by the far superior Federal firepower. 

 Boro and his compatriots were jailed for treason. However, the federal regime of General Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty on the eve of the Nigerian civil war in May 1967. He was enlisted and commissioned as a major in the Nigerian army. He fought on the side of the Federal Government but was killed by the Nigerian forces under mysterious circumstances in active service in 1968 at Okrika in Rivers State, after successfully fighting for the Nigeria forces thinking that he was liberating the Niger Delta from the Biafran Forces from eastern Nigeria.