The Pan Niger Delta Forum
(PANDEF), Niger Delta umbrella body of leaders, elders and stakeholders, has
set up a 16-member bipartisan regional Presidential Amnesty Committee to
interface with the federal government with a view to chart a way of
strengthening the amnesty programme.
The committee is headed by Air
Commordore Nkanga (rtd) with Prof. Osunbor as co-chairman.
Some other members of the
committee are Ambassador Godknows Igali, Prof G. G. Darah, Chief Timi Alaibe,
Hon Chibudom Nwuche, Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd), Sa
ra Igbe, Chief Don Etiebet, Mrs
Nella Andem-Rabana SAN, Chief Mike Loyibo and Prince Maikpobi Okareme.
Onetime Secretary General of
Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria (TROMPCON),
Prince Maikpobi Okareme, who is also a member of the committee, confirmed in a
terse statement yesterday.
The Amnesty Programme which was
established in 2009 by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was meant to last
for only three years.
The Special Adviser to the
president on Niger Delta and Coordinator Presidential Amnesty Programme,
Brigadier General Paul Boroh (rtd), had few weeks ago said that the
Presidential Amnesty Programme has met its mandate of providing peace and
stabilising the Niger Delta security environment through its training and
empowerment of ex-militants and i
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