Former Amnesty boss Charles Dokubo dies at 70

Former chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo has died.

Dokubo passed on on Wednesday after a brief illness.

He was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on the 23rd of March 1952.

He began his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema.

He did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire. From 1978-1980, Dokubo was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA [Hons] at the University of Bradford.