A NEW PAGE AT THE AMNESTY PROGRAMME Barry Ndiomu, the new programme coordinator, has his job cut out, writes Tunde Olusunle As though following a notoriously familiar trajectory, it wou
As though following a notoriously familiar trajectory, it would seem like every intervention agency emplaced by the federal government to impact on Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, intrinsically suffers some specie of leadership jinx and dysfunction. The Niger Delta Development Commission , conceived by the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar administration, and inaugurated in December 2000, has been serially plagued by leadership instability.
From its inception, PAP has been administered by six chief executives. Lucky Ochuko Ararile, ; Timi Alaibe, and Kingsley Kuku, , were Special Advisers to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinators of PAP, at various times. Paul Boroh, ; Charles Quaker Dokubo, and Milland Dikio, , have also functioned as chief executives of PAP.
Barry Tariye Ndiomu is the offspring of Charles Bebeye Ndiomu, who was also a distinguished major general in his own generation. The older Ndiomu who graduated from the University of Ibadan in 1963, was commissioned lieutenant in the Nigerian Army, 1964. He was at various times in his most eventful career: Commandant, Nigerian Military School, , Zaria; Director, Army Education Corps, Lagos, and Director-General, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, , Kuru, Jos.
A rugged soldier, the younger Ndiomu refused to be pampered or protected as son of a “very senior general,” preferring to earn his own epaulettes, medals and decorations by dint of consistent hard work and merit. He fought bravely on the frontlines in Liberia, àt the height of the Charles Taylor-engineered civil war in that country, which began in the twilight of 1989.
Barry Tariye Ndiomu was born May 2, 1963, the second of eight children born by his father and his mother, Grace, who turned 84 on her last birthday. His siblings include: Valentine Ndiomu, , of blessed memory). There are also: Denyi, ; Ibizie Ndiomu-Brown, ; Liyi, ; Didi, ; Tina and Miedo. The family hails from Odoni in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State.
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