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Pay us our allowances or we will go back to the creeks - Ex-militants threaten FG

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- Ex militants say they are ready to go back to the creeks if the government failed to address the non payment of their allowances

- They said they would cause colossal damages to the Nigerian economy in the process

- The militants specifically urged the amnesty office to reactivate their bank accounts as well as pay them their entitlements including stipends

Ex-militants have threatened to go back to the creeks to cause colossal damages to the Nigerian economy if they are not paid their entitlements with immediate effect.

The ex militants who are under the Amnesty Phase II said if the Presidential Amnesty Office fails to correct, reactivate their bank accounts as well as pay them their entitlements including stipends, they will return back to the creeks.

Chairman of the ex-militants, Aron Emmanuel, Roland Moses, who is the secretary and and Segba Perez, public relations officer handed down the threat on behalf of the ex-militants during a conference in Warri on Thursday, November 2.

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They claimed they have not been receiving their entitlement since 2010 after their trainings.

The ex-militants also accused officials of the Presidential Amnesty Office of alleged connivance with their leaders in diverting their stipends from the United Bank of Africa,UBA, the initial account opened for them to other banks particularly the Fidelity and Ecobank, Vanguard reports.

They appealed to President Buhari to help correct the anomalies in the Presidential Amnesty Office and failure to do so will force them back to the Creeks to foment more troubles and cause damage to the economy of the country.

Meanwhile, Senator Matthew Uroghide (PDP-Edo) has appealed to the executive to pay ex-militants the stipend due to them.

Uroghide, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, was reacting to the protest by a group of ex-militants at the gate of the National Assembly earlier in the day.

Uroghide, a member of the Senate Committe on Niger Delta, said the problem was not within the purview of the National Assembly but the executive.

According to him, the 2017 Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) budget has been passed by the national assembly.

“It is for money to be released for payment of their stipend.

”The Presidency should instruct the Minister of Finance to release money to the agency that is responsible for paying them, that is the amnesty office.

”We totally sympathise with them. We all know the circumstances surrounding the amnesty programme.

”If you disarm people and you are training them why will you not meet up the obligation of paying their stipend.

”The minister of finance should release their money to ensure that these people are paid as and when due.

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A group of ex-militants had earlier in the day stage a peaceful protest at the National Assembly requesting that lawmakers intervene to get the executive to pay their stipend.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that over 200 ex-militants from the Niger Delta region have protested at the National Assembly over the alleged failure of the government to pay their allowances.

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Source: Naija.ng


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