Ex-militant leaders to meet with Professor Dokubo

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*Professor Charles Dokubo

(Nigeria) Ex-Niger Delta militants have congregated in Abuja for a very crucial meeting with the newly appointed Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo.
Insiders said the meeting slated for Friday will focus on the way forward for the Amnesty Programme and also the need to curtail the abnormalities that have bedevilled the programme since its inception some ten years ago.
Speaking on behalf of the group, a collegiate of ex-militant leaders, Sampson Funpuwei said that they have all come together to seek the support of Professor Dokubo on ways and manners the Amnesty Programme can achieve the genuine purpose of its creation by the Federal Government.
"We have decided to meet with the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Boss of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Dokubo, who from our assessment is the right person for the job, to intimate him on some of the anomalies that are bedevilling the programme and to advise him on how to avoid some booby traps.
"These anomalies include the role some scavengers have been playing in milking the programme and thus thwarting the good intentions of the Federal Government towards empowering the youths of the Niger Delta region.
"Most of those presently parading themselves that they played major roles during the days of militancy in the region are just grandstanding. They know next to nothing about the events of those days in the creek of the region.
"At most, they are contractors out to reap from where they never sow.  As we speak now, members of the third phase of the Amnesty Programme are being short-changed because of the misrepresentation of these fake ex-militant leaders.
"They are frustrating the government effort by compiling fictitious names and handing them over to the government with intent to rip the Amnesty Programme.
"We want to work with Professor Dokubo and expose these charlatans so that the genuine people can duly benefit from the programme.”

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