The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), has been accused of launching offensive against leaders of the members of the Phase 2 Amnesty Programme amid critisms and calls for his sack over allegations of high-handedness, abuse of office, corruption and deriliction of duties.
This was disclosed by ‘General’ Eshanakpe Israel, a.k.a Akpodoro, who is also the Mayor of Urhoboland, at an event held in Abuja on Wednesday, where he noted that it was true that when corruption is attacked, the menace fights back.
He described the Amnesty boss as a rudderless dictator to whom criticism is alien, wondering why supposed beneficiaries of a Programme were being hounded for making their opinion known to the Nigerian public.
What is expected of Ndiomu, according to the ex-militant leader, is for the Amnesty boss to come out clean on the petitions against him addressed to the Presidency and not to let loose his ‘attack dogs’ after those he described as distinguished men who made the establishment of the programme possible.
The Mayor noted that under democratic setting, citizens have the right to their opinions and should be free to exercise that right without let or hindrance since the nation is not under a military dictatorship.
According to the Mayor, the office of the PAP Coordinator has allegedly arrested one John Isuku and Julius Belemu while Solomon Adu, Paul Johnson, and Akpos Passman were declared wanted by Ndiomu for daring to write petition against him to the National Assembly.
He wonders why a supposed manager of a Programme will find it right to hound the benefiaries of the programme into custody in such a “reckless manner” without recourse to the rule of law, adding that only a morally deficient administrator could be such lawless and dictatorial, noting that his actions confirmed the call for his sack from office as the PAP boss.
The Mayor called on the National Securirty Adviser (NSA) to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to call the Amnesty boss to order and consider showing him the way out of the office.
He described the duo of Isuku and Belemu, whom he claimed are currently in Ndiomu’s custody, as complete gentlemen, distinguished with proven sterling characters who are not given to pettiness but will always stand for the truth, while he called on the leadership of the National Assembly to invite the Interim Coordinator of PAP for questioning.
“How we got to the point of retaining a dictator in a sensitive office such as the Amnesty office is a puzzle yet to be unravelled. These men raised genuine concern about his poor transparency and accountability being a manager and today, his appointing authority watch him hound his petitioners behind the bars in a flagrant disregard to the rule of law and gross abuse of his office – the recklessness is better imagined. We call on the presidency to act now,” Mayor Akpodoro stated.
The Mayor said the coordinator drools and drivel dangerously as if the office of the amnesty manager is his heritage, emphasising the need to relieve all ethnic-centric leaders of their duties and never for such persons to be assigned any national responsibility again.
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