Omo-Agege Advises FG Not to Scrap Amnesty Programme
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has added his voice to the growing opposition to the reported move by the federal government to scrap the 11 year-old Presidential Amnesty Programme for repentant former Niger Delta militants.
An Elder Statesman, Chief Edwin Clarke, warned the government against scrapping the PAP because it would truncate the restive peace pervading the Niger Delta region. He said: “I don’t think that the timing is right for the amnesty programme to be scrapped. We have challenges right now in the North East, the ravages of Boko Haram, banditry in North West and North Central. Those are enough challenges already in this country. I don’t believe that this is the time to reawaken the agitations of militancy in the Niger Delta region.
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