A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Thursday, summoned Prof Charles Dokubo, Head of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to personally appear before it over allegations of diversion of amnesty slots.
Trial judge, Justice Awogboro Abimbola, also ordered that Dokubo appears before her on October 4, with Mr Isaac Ityohuma, Director of Finance and Accounts in the PAP Office.
Also subpoenaed is Mr Aroloye Brown, Head of Re-integatration in the Presidential Amnesty Office.
Some 75 ex-militants who accepted the Presidential Amnesty in 2010 had dragged the Coordinator of the scheme, Dokubo to court over alleged diverting their slots and accruable stipends since 2011.
The militants, led by Mr Clinton Oroupade are demanding payment of outstanding N492,375,00 being accrued stipends to each of the 75 members of the camp from January 2011 to May 2019.
The ex-militants under the Benuwolo camp in the Second phase of the amnesty scheme brought the action before the court.
At the inaugural hearing in the matter, Thursday, the 75 plaintiffs led by Oroupade told the trial judge, that they were documented and allocated 75 slots but received no stipends afterwards.
He tendered several documents and agreements and affidavits from prior efforts by the Amnesty office to resolve the issue by reverting 10 of the 75 slots before the court.
The Amnesty Office defense team led by Mr Tamaratarei Ali-Bozi did not object to the documents tendered.
The ex-agitators urged the court to declare that the alleged manipulation of the 75 slots allotted to Benuwolo camp by officials of the Amnesty Office in connivance with some ex-militants is 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.
The judge adjourned the case to October 4, for continuation of hearing after taking evidences from Oroupade who served also as a plaintiff’s witness.
