Some Ijaw leaders have mourned the death of a former Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo.
Dokubo, who hails from Abonnema in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State reportedly died at 70 in an undisclosed hospital in Abuja on Wednesday night.
He was appointed the Special Adviser on Niger Delta and Coordinator of PAP by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018 to replace Brig.- Paul Boroh (retd).
He was, however, removed in August 2020 by the President and replaced with the subsisting Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd).
Sources said Dokubo tried countless times to regain his lost position in PAP but later became sick and died in Abuja.
Some Ijaw leaders expressed disbelief over the sudden death of Dokubo describing him as an excellent technocrat.
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An author and social justice crusader, Wisdom Ikuli said he got the news of his demise from a close friend of the professor suggesting that the former PAP boss must have died heartbroken.
He said: “This distinguished Scholar and one of the rarest Nuclear Professors in Africa suffered the same pull-him-down syndrome most Ijaw leaders suffer, despite his opening up of enormous opportunities for Ijaw people both young and old, ex-agitators and non-combatants.
“He suffered so much neglect, victimization, persecution, vilification and depression before bowing to nature yesterday (Wednesday) evening”.