A group, Forum of Concerned Niger Delta Ex-Agitators, based in Okosugbene community of Delta State has exposed a desperate plot to destabilize the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) by some criminally-inclined individuals, aimed at pulling down the Amnesty Administrator, Dr. Dennis Otuaro.
The Ex-Agitators, in a statement fingered those in a desperate plot to destabilize the PAP and pull down its Administrator, Dr Otuaro.
The press statement, signed by Chief (General) Otegha Ayebi, General Benjamin Ekeremor and General Adowei Binaebi, noted that the appointment of Dennis Otuaro as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme was best for now and would not want anything that will threaten the peace of the region.
These individuals, according to the group, easily forgot that they were part of the league of night soil men who had mistaken the amnesty programme as an opportunity to expand their vagrancy and criminal misappropriation of amnesty funds for their personal gains, and who in their frustration wanted to pull down the programme.
They added that it underscored their poverty of character and irresponsibility to draw themselves into a scorched earth battle, with the present leadership of the Amnesty programme for denying them the free funding they have become accustomed to, saying; “In the past, they had intimidated and harassed Amnesty administrators to get their way, but have met a dispassionate and candid Dr. Otuaro who would not yield to their old antics”.
They said that Dr. Dennis Otuaro himself was a discernible front row leader in the days of youths restiveness in the Niger Delta, adding that; “He can’t fall to the cheap blackmail of these desperate and trounced individuals”.
