The statement said the appeal became necessary following the apprehension caused by the delay in the payment of the May 2015 stipends and in-training allowances to onshore and offshore beneficiaries.
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The statement said: “The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Worldwide regard the call by Boko Haram negotiator, ally and senate-elect from Kaduna State, Comrade Shehu Sani for the scrapping of the presidential amnesty programme for ex-Niger Delta agitators and published in several newspapers on Wednesday, the 5th of May, 2015 on the basis that it is now a drain on the nation’s resources as reckless, provocative and another conspiracy against the Niger-Delta people
The kidnapping, and a video showing the captured girls dressed in dark hijabs soon afterwards, provoked international outrage. But the majority are still missing despite Western pledges to help track them down and a Chadian attempt to broker their release.
The agreement came exactly 82 days after the Federal Government raised a 25-man committee to work out modalities for granting the amnesty to the sect
The statement noted that three inmates, Chidiebele Okolisa, Nafiu Mohammed and Kenechukwu Nwobodo, were released from Awka Prison, while Chibuzo Ekweizu and Chukwudi Okonkwo were released from Aguata Prison
Mark said that the Senate agreed that while leaving all democratic structures in place, the Federal Government must ensure that the operations of the army were fully funded
Oristejafor said that government’s decision to explore a more intensive military action to end the insurgency was a vindication of CAN’s stand that amnesty for the sect’s members was not a solution
The royal father posited that any zonal solution to insecurity by any government was bound to fail because such solution in one zone may encourage crises in another
The meeting, which was at the instance of the committee, was aimed at hearing from the government side preparatory to going into the field, the chairman of the committee and Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, told correspondents after the discussion
Shekau confirmed the group had carried out a series of attacks in recent weeks – including a raid on May 7 by about 200 heavily-armed men on Bama village, in Borno State near Nigeria’s north-eastern border with Cameroon
No fewer than 40 terrorists, including the alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, Kabiru Sokoto, were interacted with by the committee members
President Goodluk Jonathan has inaugurated the committees on dialogue with Boko Haram members and proliferation of small and light weapons
A statement on Tuesday by Dr. Reuben Abati said as earlier announced, the inauguration of both committees will take place at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Commenting on the amnesty committee set up by the government, Marwan said it was high time the government stopped what it was doing to the sect members and the sect too ceased fire
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said oil theft and pipeline vandalism, the cost of which has been put between $6 billion and $12 billion per annum, have now reverted to the pre-amnesty period, when oil theft peaked at about 350,000 barrels of per day – higher than the quantity of oil produced daily by Gabon or Equatorial Guinea
Shekau said the Nigerian state has committed several atrocities against Islam and Boko Haram
Turai noted that the issue of the Niger Delta region was of great concern to her late husband hence his commitment to restoring peace in the area, which culminated in the granting of amnesty to the militants
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, set up a committee among the members of the National Security Council to examine the feasibility of amnesty for the dreaded sect members
To strengthen that shame on Northern elites, the likes of Aminu Masari (who ate from the palms of former Governor Peter Odili, Nuhu Ribadu, Professor Ango Abdullahi (a former University don) as well as some former members of the Nigerian Armed Forces who are now stakeholders of the Northern Elders Forum, have also lend their voices to the call for Amnesty for the Islamist extremist movement that has killed more than 400 Christians through bombing of churches, straight-faced slitting of the throats of Christian faithfuls while they attended church programmes etc
During the Niger Delta Militancy, the demands were clearly stated and they had to do with unjustifiable perpetual and insensitive economic deprivation coupled with oppressive and socio-economically strangulating environmental degradation