President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo.
This was disclosed in statement on Friday by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.
According to Adesina, Dokubo was suspended by the President based on a recommendation by the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA).
“Following numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty Programme, the National Security Adviser (NSA) set up a Caretaker Committee to look into the activities of the programme on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“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,” Adesina said.
He said that the President had 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 were achieved.
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