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Groups of ex-militants (now known as ex-agitators) in the Niger Delta have confirmed that the present managing director of the Niger Delta...

Amnesty Office was constitutionally tasked to mop up all the arms in the Niger Delta, train the bearers and re-integrate them into the system. For years, the programme has not recovered enough. That is why we still have problems in the Gulf of Guinea. For peace to reign in the Gulf of Guinea and the Niger Delta, we need a body that can strategically mop up these arms and usher peace to the region. The Amnesty Office was meant to de-radicalise, educate the freedom fighters and militants in the cr...

While these things are done, the Governors of the various states too should meet and take common positions on all the issues that will facilitate and help the military operations especially decisions or measures that will undermine the strength of the bandits. For instance, ban on use of motorcycle, buying of fuel in jerrican in those areas among others. It should be a unanimous decision by the states.

63 PDP chieftains join APC in Ondo Photo Credit: The Nation Nigeria 63 chieftains of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Idanre Local

An Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark,, has denounced plans for giving criminals in the north of that country amnesty.

Nigerian elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has condemned the calls to grant amnesty to bandits responsible for the insecurity in the north.

Prominent former leaders of militant groups in the Niger Delta region have described as laughable and mischievous, renewed calls for the removal of Maj-Gen Barry Ndiomu (retd), the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP. The ex-militant leaders under the aegis of Refined Niger Delta Former Warlords in a statement on Tuesday night, dismissed |

Clark Warns Tinubu Against Scrapping Niger Delta Amnesty Programme

The Bayelsa State APC Elders Council has called for the immediate sack and arrest of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Interim Administrator, Major

Natural resource transformation is required to curb resource injustice and conflict in post-amnesty contexts such as the Niger Delta.