Ex- Niger Delta Amnesty Boss, Dokubo is Dead
A former Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Professor Charles Dokubo, is dead.
This is coming two years after he was sacked in a controversial manner by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to reports, Dokubo, 70, died at a hospital in Abuja on Wednesday night.
He was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on the 23rd of March 1952.
Dokubo, who had his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema, did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire and was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, between 1978 and 1980, where he undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA [Hons] at the University of Bradford.
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Education
He completed his Masters Degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control and moved on to grab a doctoral degree in the same University of Bradford in 1985 and subsequently appointed a temporary lecturer in the department before proceeding to Nigeria in 1993.
The amnesty programme, instituted by the administration of the late President, Umaru Yar’Adua, involves payment training in various fields and payment of stipend to former militants in the Niger Delta.
