PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has sacked Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (retd), as
coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger
Delta militants.
The president has directed the National
Security Adviser (NSA), Babanagan Monguno, to carry out full
investigation into activities of the amnesty programme from 2015 to
date, especially allegations of financial impropriety and other acts
that were allegedly detrimental to the PAP.
Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement, yesterday, said Buhari has also
approved the appointment of Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo as Boroh’s
replacement.
The new Amnesty Programme boss, Prof Dokubo who hails from Abonema, Akuku-Toru Local Government of Rivers State, is currently director of Research and Studies at the
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from
the University of Bradford, United Kingdom.
Last weekend, Boroh told State House
Correspondents that those calling for his sack were those who were no
longer benefiting from the system, to the detriment of those the PAP was
meant for.
Some ex-agitators, recently called for his sack, when they accused him of mortgaging their future.
Some of the ex-militants, who protested
at Opokuma Junction axis of the East-West Road and Igbogene Gateway, in
Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, alleged that the
programme has been hijacked by northerners, lack of consultation,
non-performance and diversion of funds meant for the implementation of
PAP by officials.
But Boroh fired back: “I want to let you
know that what is happening in the amnesty programme is no more business
as usual that is the bottom line of all that is happening.
“The programme actually is a security programme that has to do with critical stakeholders who drive the process in the programme.
“I’m only there to supervise what they are doing so
that we can achieve the aim for which the programme was established, to
ensure youth restiveness is not allowed and ensure peace and stability
of the Niger Delta region.”