Just-In: Hundreds Of Unpaid Amnesty Students Storms Mercy City in Warri, Committs Prof. Dokubo lnhuman Treatment To God

Just-In:  Hundreds Of Unpaid Amnesty Students Storms Mercy City in Warri, Committs Prof. Dokubo lnhuman Treatment To God

Francis Tayor

Warri____ Hundreds of unpaid Niger Delta region students under the Presidential Amnesty Programme from various universities where they were deployed since 2018,has besieged Christ  MercyLand Deliverance Ministry under the general oversea of Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin  in Warri Delta State to seek the face of God and to cry out for His intervention in order to save them from the inhuman treatment that they have been subjected to by the SA and Coordinator to the President on the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Quarker Dokubo.

The students who were deployed to various universities around February 2018 by the former SA to the President on the Amnesty programme, Brigadier Paul Boroh (Rtd), have been denied their stipends since Prof Charles Dokubo took over the office as the SA in March 2018 owing to some unsettled political issues between the two men. This is going on despite annual budgetory provisions  by the National Assembly to the tune of 65 billion naira to take care of all the students stay in the programme including all their stipends. But unfortunately, since almost two years now, Prof Charles Dokubo in connivance with , the office of the National Security Adviser, the office of the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank have refused to pay the students their stipends thereby putting their study under serious threat and jopardy.

It would be recalled that about 1040 students were deployed to the various universities before the assumption of office by Prof Dokubo. After leaving the entire students in hunger and unbearable pain in the various universities for over nine months in 2018, he selectively and discriminatorily embarked on the payment of some students who were from his area and from the camps of some ex-agitators loyal to him. This unexpected situation saw so many students dropping off from the programme as the good intention of government who made special provision for the payment of monthly stipends for ALL the beneficiaries owing to the fact that they were been transferred to far places from home, was defeated.

All efforts to get Prof Charles Dokubo to rescind this discriminatory payment has so far yielded no positive results as the professor sat down and unilaterally decided to pay the WHOLE 1040 students school fees and accommodation fees to the universities owners and went ahead to pay about 350 of the students deployed by his predecessor their statutory monthly stipends of 70,000:00 and 40,000:00 book allowances while leaving the rest students empty handed without a kobo to eat or buy books in the schools in order to focus completely on their studies to become better citizens as envisaged by the founding fathers of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. The students hope that a professor will understand the value of education more than anyone else in the Niger delta region has long been dashed.

All protest lettters, newspaper articles, messages to the Presidency, the National Assembly, traditional rulers, all the governor's of the Niger Delta region,  and critical stakeholders in the Niger Delta region and to Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo to pay the students their stipends has fallen on deaf ears. It is saddening to hear that those who the professor is paying the entire benefits of the programme were all deployed by the former SA the same day from the same list that Prof Charles Dokubo met on assumption of office. The students cannot understand why they have been left to suffer while those who are in the same schools with them, attending the same classes and sleeping in the same rooms have so fat been paid about 1.8M each by Dokubo to enable them focus on their studies while they are left without a dime to survive.

The refusal to pay the affected students have lead to a lot of problems for the students. The students who were deployed several kilometers from the Niger Delta region to new communities outside their homes in the creeks of the Niger Delta, have been suffering adversely in the various universities while professor Charles Quaker Dokubo has remained adamant to their plights.  They cannot understand why a man who is from the same region with them will intentionally want to kill their educational dreams knowing fully well that no student can perform well in school without feeding properly and getting reading materials. The students are also wondering why the professor has decided to pay the new students he personally deployed to the programme and have refused to do anything about their plights for over 22 months now.

It is hoped that the students decision to take their cry to the house of God, will bring succour to them so that like others who were deployed to the various universities with them the same day are smiling, they too will get divine intervention which is all that is needed now since all those who they thought could help them, has totally abandoned them to die in the wicked hands of Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo until God will remove him from office.

Please help to share this message until this injustice and oppression is stopped and the students gets their entitlements in full from the Presidential Amnesty Programme.