Prof. Charles Dokubo Must Stop Threatening Nigeria with Renewed Wave Of Militancy ln The Niger Delta, Egbesu Brotherhood Warns
Francis Tayor
The Egbesu Brotherhood of Niger Delta has send a powerful warning to the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof Charles Dokubo to stop threatening to cripple the nation's economy and peace in the Niger Delta by sponsoring some scrupulous criminal elements to cause mayhem in Country.
The group stated this in a Press Released signed by the Deputy Coordinator, Mr. Ellington Bakumor stressed that, the said militant group called Reformed Niger Delta Avengers ( RNDA) is a ghost and it doesn't exist anywhere in the Niger Delta. It is a sponsored ghost group and published in online Vanguard Newpsper by Prof Dokubo and his kinsman from Kalabari named, Maj Gen. Johnmark Ezonebi, so as to cover up the corrupt practices and ineptitude of his brother at the Amnesty office.
According to the Press Release read; " Our attention has been drawn to the showboating of one man, who is notorious for feeding off the palms of the current Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Office. This very lazy and jobless man who now masquerades as ‘The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), a group that obviously doesn’t exist ’ was recently quoted by the online version of Vanguard newspaper as saying that he “will cripple the nation’s economy with coordinated attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta should the Presidency succumb to the sponsored maneuvering and blackmail by “purported” cabals to remove the outgoing Special Adviser to the President and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Prof Charles Dokubo.”
In the statement by this hustler, who is a well known Kalabari man from Rivers, styled himself as “Major General” Johnmark Ezonbi. Nonsense! We know this desperado too well. He does not even know how to shoot a catapult (rubber sling) let alone a gun. He is all mouth and no action! He was only given A Big Promise to replace his fellow Kalabari Brother, the Head of Reintegration in the Amnesty Office.
On the contrary, it is not a secret that it is the belief of all the Niger Delta ex-agitators enlisted in the Presidential Amnesty Programme that Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo has long overstayed his welcome considering his ignorance of what the office stands , his incompetence and embezzlement of office funds as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Dokubo is the singular biggest threat to peace, safety and security in the Niger Delta. In fact, the rising cases of oil theft in the Niger Delta, at a time our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari is looking for money to fund the federal budget, is glaringly as a result of the crass ineptitude of Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo. That Dokubo still parades himself as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in spite of the monumental cases of corruption that has been linked to him and his cohorts, is one of the wonders of this era.
We must send direct message to Prof. Charles Dokubo to stop threatening and Blackmailing Mr President and indeed the nation with renewed wave of militancy in the Niger Delta. The youths and freedom fighters in the Niger Delta have since renounced violence and will never return to that sad era irrespective of the provocations of Prof. Charles Dokubo and his hirelings like the so-called “Major General Johnmark Ezonbi.” By 2016 virtually all the 30,000 ex-agitators enlisted in the Programme had received either vocational training or formal education in some of the best training facilities across the world. What was left was the reintegration of already trained persons. Looking at his performance since resumption. this Professor is clearly the worst head of the Presidential Amnesty Programme since inception and the most criminally minded .
Only recently, the nation was shocked when news made the rounds about how Professor Dokubo procured 100 wooden boats at the cost of N4 Million each purportedly to “empower” Niger Delta women. When challenged that each of those wooden boats could be procured at less than N200,000 each, Dokubo countered that they also threw in fishing nets and hooks into each of the boats! He never disputed the fact that N4 Million was spent on each of the miserable wooden boats.
Professor Prof. Charles Dokubo does not have an understanding of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Worst still, he does not even nearly have the capacity to run the Programme. His appointment was a huge mistake in the first place. Under Dokubo, the amnesty Programme lacks focus – totally directionless. He just sits down everyday and award senseless contracts to cronies who usually would not do the job but rather return huge chunks of the money back to the Professor once they get paid by the office. The former Director of Finance and Accounts, who attempted to check this vice was chased out of the office by the Professor and his colluding friends in government.
Given his lack of understanding of the Programme, Prof. Dokubo has now been literally held hostage by persons who see the Amnesty Office as a means of making money, lots of it. The situation is so bad that the Coordinator has now totally lost control of the Office. Senior Civil Servants in the office, conniving with some contractors have taken over power from Dokubo and are now perpetrating colossal and brazen corruption. No wonder he has been visiting EFCC office almost on weekly basis. Very soon, details of his EFCC travail will be released to the general public especially the Benin furniture company issue.
Despite calls for proper investigation of the massive looting in Kaima orchestrated by Prof and his criminal civil servants (procurement, admin and legal directors), supply of materials has continued unabated howbeit delivery is now to Buzi office in Abuja and this is another plot to syphon another N1,000,000,000 (One Billion Naira ) to bride government officials in the presidency for him to remain in office where has only cleverly looted billions of naira and caused much harm to stakeholders in the region (pictures below)
Given that Professor Dokubo did not take his time to understand the programme, including the mandate, he has been unable to manage the programme’s stakeholders.
Owing to these failings of Dokubo, huge oil theft has continued in the Niger Delta, hurting the nation’s already fledgling economy. It is the collective wish of all of us enlisted in the Presidential Amnesty Programme for His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately replace Dokubo with someone with a perfect understanding of the Amnesty Programme. Someone who would return the Programme to its original ideals , by Once again Uniting Stake holders , reintegrating already trained Ex agitators, and bringing fresh ideas by so doing ensuring that the Region stays Peaceful and for it to continue its cordial relationship with Mr President .
We hereby ask that Professor Charles Dokubo should do the honorable thing and resign now or face a humiliating eviction from office as Niger delta Ex agitators are fast loosing patience with this wicked Professor, the statement adds."
Signed:
Ellington Bakumor,
Deputy Cordinator
Egbesu Brotherhood
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