FROM, ANIEFIOK OBONG, YENAGOA
Leaders and coordinators of the Phase One ex-agitators have condemned the ongoing plot to link the administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Dr Dennis Otuaro, to a purportedly leaked confidential document about former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The leaders, who rose from a meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the weekend, warned against blackmails and needless attacks on Otuaro by some detractors in the Niger Delta.
In a communique issued after the meeting, the ex-agitators particularly took exceptions to a video circulated a few weeks ago on social media by one Jude Gbaboyor, who claimed that Otuaro leaked a confidential document in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, against Jonathan.
The ex-agitators in the communique signed by the chairman of First Phase and king of Ofunama, Henry Binidodogha, aka General Egbeme 1, also condemned what they described as
unsavoury allusions of Gbaboyor to the foremost Niger Delta freedom fighter and chairman of Tantita Security Services Limited, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.
“It is our collective conviction that Jude Gbaboyor’s allegations, including the one bordering on leaked DSS document and his attacks on Dr Dennis Otuaro in the social media and some section of the mainstream media were unfounded, untenable and unwarranted.
“We also believe strongly that Dr Dennis Otuaro did not know anything about the published document. The administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme does not work with the DSS. He, therefore, cannot be accused by Jude Gbaboyor of causing the purported document to be published”, they said
They insisted that the PAP office was not an extension or annex of the DSS and that sensitive documents of the security agency like the one bandied by Gbaboyor was not in any way in the custody of Dr Dennis Otuaro.
They referred to the DSS as one of the most efficient and organised agencies in the country with an unimaginable capacity for holistic investigations, adding that the agency did not need anybody to do an investigative job for them.
