Ex-Amnesty Boss, Dokubo Is Dead

The former Coordinator Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Charles Quaker Dokubo, is dead.

Sources that spoke with The Nation on the development said Dokubo died at 70 in an undisclosed hospital in Abuja on Wednesday night.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on the 27th of August, 2020 sacked Dokubo as the president of the programme, and appointed Milland Dikio as interim coordinator of the amnesty programme.

Dokubo was sacked by the President based on some allegations levelled against him.

Things To Know About Dokubo

Dokubo was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on the 23rd of March 1952.

The former Niger Delta amnesty boss had his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema.

He did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire. From 1978-1980, Dokubo was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA [Hons] at the University of Bradford.

Dokubo completed his Masters’s Degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control.

In 1985, he was awarded his doctoral degree at the same University of Bradford.

He was later appointed a temporary lecturer in the department before proceeding to Nigeria in 1993.