N-Delta ex-militants issue 7-day ultimatum to FG
Yenagoa — Former militants in the
Niger Delta, who were not registered in the extended Federal Government amnesty
programme, yesterday, gave a seven-day ultimatum to be absorbed in the
programme, warning that they would no longer guarantee the security of oil
installations if the government failed to register them.
The aggrieved ex-militants, in a
statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, by ‘General’ Inami David, said they
deserved to be documented and registered, having surrendered their arms.
He noted that their expectations
were dashed by the Federal Government team which carried out the verification
and documentation exercise.
He said the team that carried out
the exercise at the Sector 2 Command Headquarters of the Joint Task Force in
Yenagoa, was biased.
He accused its members of placing
some camps ahead of others.
He said: “We the aggrieved persons
in the just concluded verification and documentation exercise are giving the
Federal Government seven days to contact us and include us in the amnesty
programme.
“Unless this happens, we will have
no option but to resort to other means to get our grievances addressed, which
will be of dire consequences to the Federal Government.”
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