Gen. Ebi John, the chairman of third phase ex-militants, has disclosed that the ex-militants have planned to mobilise about 3000 youths in Bayelsa State within the week to lockdown the Mbiama axis of the East West Road to register their anger against the Amnesty Coordinator, Prof Charles Dokubo with a view to preventing what he described as a repeat of multiple fresh violent agitations in the Niger Delta.
The ex-agitator lamented that Prof. Dokubo has failed the people of the Niger Delta, particularly the ex-agitators who willingly dropped arms in the interest of peace.
He disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, adding that the youth in the region have been further polarized by “the divide-and-rule-leadership style of Prof Dokubo.”
He recalled the “sad free-for-all-looting incident at the Presidential Vocational Training Centre in Kaiama, on the eve of the Presidential polls under the watch of Prof. Dokubo. The pay day was fast closing up on the Amnesty boss, even as he may have started counting days of his inglorious exit, as the administration’s first tenure winds up.”
He alleged that under Prof. Dokubo, no meaningful achievement has been recorded in terms of trainings and empowerment of delegates, adding that the university teacher has rather succeeded in making promises without fulfillment, giving an instance where he promised training 2, 500 beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme in modern fishing at Burutu, with assurance of being fully employed on completion of the project, for which an implementation committee and five other subcommittees were inaugurated by Prof. Dokubo.
