Ex-Agitators Dissociate Members from Purported Meeting by Faceless Group,
-Reject Meeting In a palace
By Amos Odhe.
Some critical stake holders of the third phase of the presidential Amnesty Program, PAP, are condeming the inclusion of there names without consulting them, saying from the inception of the group it’s meetings have never been held in personal palaces or homes of individuals, but in designated and well secured and comfortable centrally located premises, saying that the purportedly peace and unity meeting slated for Warri and in a palace of a member was not only an aberration, but should be discountenanced by the Coordinator of the presidential Amnesty Program,Dr Dennis Otuaro public and security agencies,as they lack the powers to convene any meeting without involvement of the National Chairman of the Third Phase of the presidential Amnesty Program, PAP.
Chief Oyinkuro Ereboh, and Gen. Stephen Okiemo speaking on behalf of Stakeholders of the Third Phase of the PAP, stated while reacting to their names been mentioned as signatories by a faceless and disgruntled members of the Delegates of Presidential Amnesty Program,they outrightly denied the existence of any other group,infact there is no name like Concerned Stakeholders Forum in their fold.
According to them as the current National Chairman of Third Phase of the Presidential Amnesty Program, no meeting is supposed to be held without the National Chairman,s knowledge,but for a few persons to arrogate powers to themselves to convene a meeting without their knowledge and permission was a serious offence and warned those behind that to rescind their decisions, if there is any reason to summon a meeting the national chairman should be consulted with stakeholders to fix a date and convenient venue for the safety, security and comfort of it’s members.
” Our meetings have never been held in personal residents and l wonder why a peace and unity meeting should be fixed for Bounanawei palace in Warri”.
Besides, as delegates two of us , Dr Oyinkuro Efie Ereboh and Stephen Okiemo had nothing or no relationship with the purported meeting signatories hence we dissociated ourselves from that faceless group, that does not exists anywhere , saying they were not consulted and can never be part of such kangaroo meeting as Elaye Slaboh remains the authentic National Chairman and we are ready to remain with him until the tenure of his tenure when another National Chairman of Third Phase of the presidential Amnesty Program will be elected as stipulated in their constitution.
We are using this medium to alert the Coordinator of the presidential Amnesty Program,Dr Dennis Otuaro,the security agencies and the stakeholders of Niger Delta of the implication of the proposed meeting by some disgruntled and ambitious delegates of the Third Phase of the presidential Amnesty Program, condemning also the threat by the group for given ultimatum of protest at the National Assembly at Abuja, should the meeting failed to hold,saying that in several fora they had told the coordinator, Dr Denis Otuaro that they have passed the stage of protest ,but dialoguing for peaceful settlement of any grievances.