\A Federal High Court in Yenagoa
on Thursday summoned Prof. Charles Dokubo, Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty
over alleged diversion of stipends meant for 75 former militants.
NAN reports that also summoned to
appear before Justice Awogboro Abimbola on Oct. 4, are Mr Isaac Ityohuma and Mr
Aroloye Brown, Director of Finance and Accounts and Head of Reintegration in
the Presidential Amnesty office.
Abimbola adjourned the case until
Oct. 4 for continuation of hearing after taking evidence from the ex-militants’
leader, Mr Clinton Oroupade, who was also a prosecution witness.
The defendants were dragged to
court by some 75 ex-militants under the Benuwolo Camp in the 2nd phase of the
scheme, who accepted the Presidential Amnesty in 2010.
The militants are demanding
payment of outstanding N492 million for the 75 members of the camp from January
2011 to May 2019.
When the matter came up for
hearing on Thursday, Oroupade told the court that his group was documented and
allocated 75 slots but received no stipends afterward.
He tendered several documents,
agreements and affidavits from prior efforts by the Amnesty office to resolve
the issue by reverting 10 out of the 75 slots before the court.
However, the defence led counsel,
Mr Tamaratarei Ali-Bozi, did not object to the documents tendered.
The group urged the court to
declare that the alleged fraudulent manipulation of the 75 slots allotted to
Benuwolo Camp by officials of the Amnesty Office in connivance with some
ex-militants as unlawful.
The militants had in their
statement of claims filed by their Counsel, Mr Richard Turner urged the court
to order the Amnesty Office to revert the 75 slots of the Camp and halt further
diversion of slots by the office.
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