--Some former
warlords in the Niger Delta Wednesday decried the unending tussle to get them
enlisted in the Federal Government-backed Amnesty Programme initiated by the
late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
The
aggrieved youths from Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States told journalists in
Yenagoa that they had also written a protest letter to Acting President Yemi
Osinbajo after the amnesty office flouted several agreements with them.
They argued
that 18 of their members embraced the programme under the third phase in 2012
and have since then not benefitted from the funds.
Leaders of
the group include Asenekiri Oyinle, Angiama-Owei Oyindoubra, John Government,
Henry Gomoromo, John Sawyer, Trydi Okpeke, Dollar Motor, Selebi Ayowei, Bobra
Angese and Ekerebi Umber.
They
thereafter approached the Federal High Court in suit number
FHC/YNG/CS/102/2013, but the Amnesty Office has refused to make any
representations or embrace the out of court settlement option, the ex-militants
said.
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