Crisis brews as 1,166 ex-militants kick over alleged unpaid one-year stipends
No fewer than 1,166 ex-militants under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (Phase 2) have lamented the alleged non-payment of their monthly stipends of N65,000 for over one year.
They claimed that all efforts to receive their monthly stipends from the Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd.)-led PAP had not yielded any positive results.
They accused Dikio, who is also the Special Adviser to the President on PAP of being allegedly responsible for the rising wave of crude oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta region
Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved 1,166 ex-militants from Bayelsa State, Chairman, Phase 2, ‘General’ John Esuku, claimed that the refusal of the Amnesty Office to pay over 6,000 ex-agitators their N65, 000 monthly stipends for the past one year had driven a lot of jobless youths in the region to return to the creeks to resume artisanal crude refining.
Esuku explained that despite several letters sent to the Amnesty Office for a meeting to resolve the issues surrounding the non-payment of stipends to the PAP beneficiaries, the Federal Government had gone ahead to pay billions of naira for pipeline surveillance contract. Nation
