Ex-militants issue protest notice to Amnesty office
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By Nnamdi Ojiego
Leaders of the Phase 3 of the Presidential Amnesty programme, have given May 18, 2021, as deadline for Col. Milland Dixon Dikio, the Presidential Amnesty Interim Administrator, to convey an emergency stakeholders meeting to address issues affecting them.
The agitators, from the six states of the Niger Delta region, after a well attended meeting held in Warri, Delta state, said the call for the meeting has become necessary to address what they called “critical issues of verification” to ensure that the Amnesty office only deals with the authentic leaders of the programme.
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Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ondo State appealed to the state government to not make them regret surrendering their arms and ammunitions to the Federal Government, following their alleged exclusion from the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
This plea was made by the over 6000 militants from Ilaje and Ese – Odo Local Government Areas of the state during their visit to the headquarters of Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC) in Akure, the state capital.
Speaking on behalf of the ex-militants, their spokesperson General Job Omotua, lamented that they were lured into submitting their arms but were later abandoned by the state and federal government.
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