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| Tompolo & Asari Dokubo |
A former leader of the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a.
Tompolo, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing
Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh as the new head of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme.
He said tha the action of the President
only portrayed him as a listening leader with a desire to contribute to
the development of the Niger Delta.
He also hailed the President for the
choice of a retired military officer, rather than the politicians who
had been scheming to get the job.
He urged the new Amnesty coordinator to
ensure that critical stakeholders were consulted in the running of the
programme and to avoid political jobbers.
He
said, “It could be recalled that I called a meeting of ex-agitators,
leaders and other stakeholders in the Niger Delta last week as a result
of the pressure on me to intervene in the seemingly troubled Amnesty
Programme due to the non-payment of the stipends and allowances to
beneficiaries for months now.
“And so, it gives me joy for the
President to appoint a high-ranking retired military gentleman to
coordinate the programme, rather than have any of the political jobbers,
who had advertised themselves in very negative forms in order to be
appointed.”
Also, frontline ex-militant leaders from
the nine states of the Niger Delta have commended President Muhammadu
Buhari for the appointment of Boroh (retd.) as the substantive Chairman
of the Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee.
According to the ex-militant leaders,
the appointment will undoubtedly resolve the concerns raised by the
people of the region over the hitches in the Amnesty programme and
payment of outstanding allowances and scholarship fees. They said the
choice was apt.
The former agitators, under the aegis of
the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, led by
Pastor Reuben Wilson, said on Wednesday that the choice of Boroh was
commendable.
Wilson said though the appointment was
delayed, he said nevertheless, it would calm frayed nerves among
beneficiaries of the programme.
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