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PAP: N/Delta ‘ll protest against your govt if you don’t stop appointing ex-military administrators – Ozobo tells Buhari
•Says ex-military administrators have failed
The National President of the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, Amb. (comrade) Ozobo Austin has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to further appoint ex-military administrators as Coordinators in the Presidential Amnesty Programme, saying they were responsible for the failure of the programme.
He made the call in a statement sent to a Congress correspondent on Thursday morning.
The public advocate, popularly known as the ‘KING OF DRAGONS’ had said all ex-military administrators in the amnesty programme had failed and that should at no time Buhari appoint an ex-military administrator as coordinator in the amnesty programme.
He gave the names of the past and current PAP coordinators as Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ochuko Ararile,
Major General Godwin Abbe,
Mr. Kingsley Kuku,
Brig Gen P.T. Boroh, Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio, and now Major general Barry Ndiomu.
He said the amnesty office was well directed the few times civilians were appointed as co-ordinators of PAP.
Ozobo reiterated that ex-military officers who were responsible for the killing of Ijaw youths and the destruction of Ijaw communities when they were in active service do not deserve to benefit from the amnesty programme created by the blood of the innocent Niger Delta youths.
He also added that Nigeria is a democratic society, stressing that it was wrong for a section of the democratic government to be governed with military draconian policies.
Ozobo had warned that General Barry Ndiomu should be the last ex-military administrator to manage the amnesty office if the existing fragile peace in Niger Delta should not be distorted.
The Niger Delta activist called on President Buhari to prevail on Ndiomu to lift the suspension of the scholarship scheme, call back the two suspended students, and address BVN, payment challenges, and other sundry issues in the programme to avoid a call for his removal from office.
