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b. 1970

Kingsley Kuku (born 14 February 1970) is a Nigerian political and environmental rights activist. He served as special adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and was chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.

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He cited the processes used in solving the Niger-Delta crisis through the help of persons who volunteered to speak with the key players in the militancy, based on their personal relationships with them or communal links to them and their families.

When Jonathan’s administration ended in 2015, Kuku’s visibility faded, as it does for many officials whose influence is tied to a particular government. For years, he stayed largely out of the national conversation.

He noted that the Boko-Haram crisis was not a religious issue but wholly about a sect that wants to impose its will on a country, and this explains why both Christians and Muslims were being attacked.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kingsley Kuku (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.