JUST IN: Buhari Fires Boroh, Names Charles Dokubo as Amnesty Coordinator

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Brigadier-General Paul
Boroh (Rtd) as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme
for Niger Delta militants and replaced him with Professor Charles
Quaker Dokubo.

Prof Dokubo is currently Director of Research and Studies at the
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.

He holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from the University of
Bradford, United Kingdom, and hails from Abonema, Akuku-Toru Local
Government of Rivers State.

A statement by Femi Adesina, spokesman to Buhari also indicated
that the President directed the National Security Adviser (NSA)
Babagana Mungunu to carry out a full investigation into the
activities of the Amnesty Programme from 2015 to date.

Mungunu is also expected to investigate allegations of financial
impropriety leveled against Boroh, especially acts that were
detrimental to the objectives of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme.

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Brigadier-General Paul
Boroh (Rtd) as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme
for Niger Delta militants and replaced him with Professor Charles
Quaker Dokubo.

Prof Dokubo is currently Director of Research and Studies at the
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.

He holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from the University of
Bradford, United Kingdom, and hails from Abonema, Akuku-Toru Local
Government of Rivers State.

A statement by Femi Adesina, spokesman to Buhari also indicated
that the President directed the National Security Adviser (NSA)
Babagana Mungunu to carry out a full investigation into the
activities of the Amnesty Programme from 2015 to date.

Mungunu is also expected to investigate allegations of financial
impropriety leveled against Boroh, especially acts that were
detrimental to the objectives of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme.