A group has said attacks on Aroloyeteim Brown, the Head of Reintegration of the Presidential Amnesty Programme is “unwholesome” while alleging that it was due to jostling for the vacant coordinator’s position.
The leader of the group, Niger Delta Ex-Agitators Solidarity Front, Ramsey Mukoro in statement said “It is regrettable that a man like Brown would be attacked on the pages of newspapers as part of a strategic pull-him-down campaign being waged against him in the name of succession politics.”
In February President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the suspension of the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Prof. Charles Quakers Dokubo over numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
A caretaker committee was set up to look into the activities of the programme, and to oversee it running with a view to ensuring that government’s objectives were achieved.
Mukoro said jostling for position should not lead to attacks on Aroloyetieim who he describes as “a man who has not only demonstrated exceptional competence, through the years, on the reintegration aspect of the Amnesty Programme but also has an enduring history of championing the Niger Delta cause right from the formation of the Ijaw Youth Council”.
According to the statement, which was also signed by Moses Akasa, Andamor Trust, Parker Timilaemi and Godspower Adubagha, Aroloyeteim had suffered severe relegation and injustice on account of his forthrightness in discharging his duties and should therefore not be subjected to public ridicule.
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