Niger Delta Stakeholders have described as “unreasonable and vexatious” plan by the federal government to substitute the Presidential Amnesty Programme with the crude oil pipeline Contract recently awarded to former militant leaders from the region, warning that the plan could trigger another rounds of agitation and frustrate the campaign against oil theft in the region.
According to the stakeholders, Ndiomu was quoted as saying his mandate was to urgently terminate the PAP in exchange for the pipeline surveillance contract, and directed staff of PAP to immediately commence the process of winding down, prior to the expiration of his tenure on March 1, 2023, approximately 90 days before the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure on May 29, 2023.
The statement read: “Since Gen. Ndiomu’s appointment, the smooth operations of the Amnesty programme has shattered, causing serious tension across the region due to Ndiomu’s so-called presidential mandate to urgently terminate the Amnesty programme in exchange for the pipeline surveillance contract. “While at the same time, the presidency is utilising billions of naira exploited from the Niger Delta region to train and rehabilitate repentant Boko-Haram terrorists, and Islamic States of West Africa Province terrorists that have killed and maimed thousands of innocent Nigerians while millions of Nigerians are displaced by the actions of these terrorists.
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