Dear President,
On behalf of the various groups of the Niger Delta that form the basis of the Niger Delta Awareness Coalition
(NDAC), we wish to bring to your notice the corrupt and avaricious antics of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta who also doubles as Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).
Mr. President, your Special Adviser of Niger Delta Kingsley Kuku is incompetent, unfit for the position and intensely corrupt. More importantly, he does not mean well for you in your commitment to bring succor to the people of the Niger Delta.
Since his appointment as Special Adviser to the President early last year, Kingsley Kuku has embezzled billions of naira of funds earmarked for the development of the Niger Delta while Niger Delta youths are shipped away to unaccredited training and educational institutions across the world e.g. South Africa, United States, India, Sri Lanka and many others through dubious training contracts that serve no other reason than to shortchange the Niger Delta people. Many of such training institutions are uncertified and the certificates they issue to our boys are useless and worthless.
Mr. President, there is enough evidence to show that your Special Adviser on Niger Delta engineered the agitation by a group of Niger Delta youths to campaign for a Third Phase of the Amnesty Programme even when it is clear and beyond any doubts that these young men have never belonged to any militant camp in the Niger Delta.
Mr. President, if the books of the Presidential Amnesty Programme is carefully investigated, there is no doubt that Kingsley Kuku would be jailed for theft, corrupt and unbelievable embezzlement of funds which should have served the purpose of enriching the lives of the people of the Niger Delta.
Over-bloated training contracts with little or no real value as well as expensive all-expense paid international and local trips in private jets are the channels through which the people of the Niger Delta continue to be fleeced by the activities of this kinsman of yours from Ondo State.
As a result of the fact that Kingsley Kuku has not been able to develop a proper selection and gleaning process, so-called ex-militants who can neither read or write are sent on expensive training programs to the countries mentioned above.
Some of these so-called amnesty trainees do not even possess the right frame of mind to productively engage in these training programs. As a result, reports of rape, theft and armed robbery have been received from training centers in South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and many others.
Not too long ago a batch of untrainable so-called trainees were shipped off to a third rated university in the United Kingdom. More than 70% of these trainees barely had the educational ability to pass their first foundation exams and so they failed. Millions of dollars have been so wasted because the selection of these people was not meticulously made.
Mr. President, millions of dollars is being spent to train ex-militants on how to fly airplanes in South Africa.
The question Mr. President is, what plane will they fly when they return to Nigeria? Who will employ them to fly aircrafts? How many airlines operate in Nigeria? Who will allow someone labeled with the tag ‘ex-militants’ fly his aircraft?
What will happen when the ton of so-called ex-militants that have been sent out for training return to Nigeria especially those with worthless training certificates from institutions that have no value even in their own countries?
The cost of these training contracts are unbelievable, over-the-roof and the costs are specially designed in such a manner that some of the funds return to Kingsley Kuku’s pockets. Right before our eyes!
As Special Adviser to the President on Amnesty and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Program, Kingsley Kuku moves with a convoy of soldiers and Mobile Policemen that out-matches those of the Chief of Army Staff and Inspector General of Police put together! Now, is that fair?
Who bears the cost of all this? Who bears the cost of the private jets that Kingsley Kuku uses to traverse the Nigerian state every week?
How many Ministers or Special Advisers use private jets in the manner so described?
This is not right Mr. President. This is so not right.
We pray you therefore Mr. President to terminate Kingsley Kuku’s appointment as Special Adviser to the President and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme and begin the process to identify a trusted, capable and loyal aide who can truly deliver real progressive dividend to the people of the Niger Delta.
We cannot have a thief serving the people solely because he is of Ijaw ethnic stock.
Mr. President, maybe you should ask yourself if Kingsley Kuku is really loyal to you and all that you believe in. Do you truly believe that Kingsley Kuku believes in you?
This is a question you must take time and ponder upon even as we work to provide our own answers in a few days.
Mr. President, the Niger Delta needs every penny it earns to be ploughed in the development of the region. We have suffered enough and it is not right that we be pillaged under your watch.
Mr. President, a stitch in time saves nine. God will help us eventually but we will continue to do everything within our power to help ourselves.
God bless Mr. President. God bless Nigeria.
Niger Delta Awareness Coalition
NigerDeltaAlert@yahoo.com
Amadi Wonodi
President
Diepreye Jackson Dikibo
Secretary
Tombari Lekara
Deputy President
