The Niger Delta Integrity Group (NDIG) has distanced itself from the petition written to the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (rtd.), alleging that the Interim Administrator, Maj. Gen. Barry Tariye Ndiomu, his aides and some officials of the Amnesty office had been involved in graft as regards the Presidential Amnesty Programme since September 2022.
In a statement released by the group’s convener Boma Horsfall and obtained by SaharaReporters, the ex-militants condemned the allegation, describing it as slander targeted at tarnishing the reputation of Ndiomu.
The statement continued: “The NDIG notes with utmost dismay, how some Ijaws have chosen to remain non-futuristic, disunited and are sticking to the culture of pulling down each other, exhibiting the 'Pulling Down Syndrome'. We recall how the likes of Brig. Gen. Paul Boro , late Prof. Charles Dokubo and others who are of Ijaw ethnic extraction were pulled down by our own people.
“We have it on good authority that a portfolio contractor identified as Andrew Pinneh and his associates, had been threatening to blackmail the Interim Administrator for refusing to pay him a dubious sum of N1.5bn. The said contractor who owns NYEEAP SYNERGY CONSULTING LIMITED, never delivers in contracts awarded to him, and has been doing so in connivance with a suspected mole in the PAP Accounts Department.
“The Presidential Amnesty Programme receives a monthly budgetary allocation of N5bn. Out of this amount, over N3.8bn is exhausted on paying monthly stipends of ex-agitators with bulk payments to their leaders, who are called the 'Big Five', educational scholarships are also facilitated from this monthly fund. Unpaid contractors are settled from the same fund, the day-to-day running of the PAP office, stakeholders engagement meetings, and salaries of staff, are all sorted from this fund.
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