By Bulou Kosin
Niger Delta Activist, Moses Mala says accountability and stewardship were not the goals of the House of Representatives Committee which planned arrest of Dr Dennis Otuaro, Presidential Amnesty Administrator, after a curiously fast run of six invitations.
Mala said if something unfair was not the motive, the Reps Committee would have adopted “a better approach to reach Dr Dennis Otuaro who has been busy, commendably driving the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to new frontiers and depths within the programme’s mandate”.
He queried: “Why do you rush six invitations to justify calls for arrest when it would have been best to explore arrangement that will adequately enable him take a leave from pressing security concerns he is tackling by the day in the Niger Delta towards economic prosperity of the nation? He was not in charge of the period for which explanation is required! If the House Committee was all the while conscious of its oversight functions, how many invitations and calls for arrest were extended to the persons then in charge of the PAP for the period under review?”.
“We hope the Reps Committee is not in plans to scuttle Otuaro’s progressive run of the PAP to continuously satisfy and expand beneficiaries to more ethnic groups in the Niger Delta, thereby strengthening peace in the oil bearing areas?”, Mala asked.
He cautioned: “This is not just the first time a participant-aagitator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, from the Niger Delta creeks is at the PAP block, but a qualified man from Gbaramatu Kingdom which arguably suffered the most devastating blows in the military destructions that necessitated former President Umar Yar’Adua’s declaration/establishment of the Amnesty Programme in 2009”.
