Omo-Agege kicks against scrapping Amnesty programme for Niger Delta ex-agitators
This comes as he charged people in the region to come up with a new narrative about holding leaders in the region to account.
In recent times there has been a debate for either the scrapping or retention of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, introduced by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2009 for Niger Delta militants who had engaged in armed struggle for a better deal in the oil-rich region. “I have been privy to all of the budgetary estimates that were passed both in the Eighth Assembly and in the Ninth Assembly. And all that we are entitled to as a region has been given to us.
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