BEVERLY HILLS, February 28, (THEWILL) – The Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, has been removed from the top job “with immediate effect” by President Muhammadu Buhari.
A technical committee will henceforth oversee the programme, Femi Adesina, Buhari’s spokesman said in a statement Friday, adding that his removal is on the heels of “Numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty Programme” which “prompted the National Security Adviser (NSA) to set up a Caretaker Committee to look into the activities of the programme…”
“Part of the Committee’s task is to ensure that allocated resources are properly utilized in consonance with government’s objective of alleviating problems in the Niger Delta region, and stamping out corruption in the Amnesty Programme.
“Consequently, the NSA recommended to Mr President that the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo be suspended, a recommendation that has been approved and which takes immediate effect.
“The President has also directed that the Caretaker Committee set up to review the programme should oversee the running of the programme henceforth, with a view to ensuring that government objectives are achieved,” Adesina said.
