OMG : How Professor Charles Dokubo Defraud The Amnesty Beneficiaries

Professor Charles Dokubo cannot flagrantly abuse the power of his office by reneging on the terms of a valid contract he signed with the entire presidential amnesty programme students with his two eyes opened.

Under Nigerian law of contract, Professor Charles Dokubo has so far committed a serious breach of the contract between the Federal government and the amnesty programme students numbering over 700 which he has withheld their financial entitlements according to the clear terms of the document below he gave all of them to sign on resumption of office.

Trietel, in his book law of contract, defines contract thus.. 

"An agreement given rise to obligations which are recognized or enforced by law"

Prof I. E. Sagay in his book, Nigerian law of contract defines contract thus.. 

"A contract is an agreement which the law will enforce or recognize as affecting the legal rights and duties of the parties".

For a contract to be valid and binding on the parties, it must have the following important ingredients.
* Offer
* Acceptance
* Consideration
* Intention to enter into legal relations.

From the evidence above in the attached document , it is crystal clear that there was a valid contract between the Federal government of Nigeria and the Niger Delta presidential amnesty students to train them in the clear terms specified in the document.

It is trite law that once an offer has been giving by the promisor to the promisee, and the terms of the agreement has been accepted by the offeree and a consideration is duly furnished, the contract is binding. There is no mistaken of the facts that from the correspondence between these students and the amnesty office, there was a clear intention to enter into legal relations that was vividly contemplated from the beginning to be legally binding on Prof Charles Dokubo and the students. He must be estoppelled from brazenly breaching a contract he entered with students with his two eyes opened for equity not to be defeated in this clear case of oppression and discrimination that can only go unchecked in a lawless country.

The Movement is therefore calling on the students that have signed this document as given to them on behalf of the Federal government under President Mohammadu Buhari to sign by the Special Adviser and Coordinator of the presidential amnesty programme Professor Charles Dokubo to deploy all necessary means to seek redress to correct this injustice and fundamental breach of their constitutional right to freedom from discrimination and dignity to the human person. The Movement is also calling on the entire people of the Niger Delta region not to allow the vindictive actions of Prof Charles Dokubo over his predecessor in office Gen Boroh to prevent these stranded university students from fulfilling their dreams. It is not in the interest of the region or the country for students who have been away from their various communities in the creeks of the Niger Delta to begin to drop out of the programme because they cannot feed themselves, buy textbooks, print assignments and concentrate on their studies. No body should think that a student without any other means of income in strange lands can survive a four to six years course in Nigeria without the provision of the stated support by the government.

The President and the members of the National Assembly and well meaning Nigerians should prevail on Prof Charles Dokubo to honor the terms of this agreement which he signed with the students on their deployment to the various universities. He should not be allowed to go back on his commitment and promises to keep his own part of this agreement. A Professor should not be seen breaching a contract as important as this one which is pivotal to the peace, security and development of the Niger Delta and the entire country.
He should be called to order before things gets out of hands. What he cannot do to his own children, should not be meted out to the students who are equally entitled to quality education as his own.

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