Amnesty: 45 Amnesty Students In Russia Risk Deportation

About 45 Nigerian students of the federal government’s amnesty programme in Russia may be deported from that country over the face-off between the Office of the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Amnesty and the co-ordinator of the Amnesty programme in Russia.

The co-ordinator, Maurice Okoli, in a letter to the Ambassador of Nigeria to Russia, Chief Assam E. Assam, threatened to commence a legal suit in a Russian court of arbitration in order to deport all amnesty students in the Russian federation.

Maurice, in the letter, is alleging that the Amnesty office in Abuja, headed by Mr Kingsley Kuku failed to refund the $60,000 his company, Eman Logistics Ltd paid to the students when they were protesting the non-payment of their allowances.

Okoli said he was invited to take over the duty of Amnesty Coordinator in Russia after he bailed out the federal government from the embarassment the protest of the students would have caused.

Several letters were made available to our correspomdent showing that there was a contract between Amnesty office in Abuja and Okoli’s company.

“Finally, we are aware of the huge embarassment the deportationof all Amnesty students in Russia will cause the federal government. As things stand now, we are left with no options than to resort to legal action and litigation in order to resolve this matter,” Okoli said