Ex-Niger Delta Millitants Protest Over Unpaid Allowance

Updated Friday 24 March 2017 12:55

Former militants threatened the federal government with a protest over their unpaid stipends as granted under the 2009 amnesty programme.

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All these are coming in just weeks after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited many states in the Niger Delta region as part of the federal government’s plan to ease tension in the restive area, former militants are said to be getting ready for a protest.

A local newspaper source quotes the former militants as saying in a statement: “We are calling for the immediate release of the balance sum of the 2016 supplementary budgetary allocation…to avert any situation that will warrant beneficiaries of the programme going to the streets to protest and barricade roads.”

Under the 2009 amnesty programme deal, each former militant was is to be paid N65,000 monthly apart from training.

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