Militants
The
political solution to end youth restiveness in the volatile oil-producing Niger
Delta region of Nigeria that was successfully introduced during the
Yar’Adua/Jonathan administration may be heading for the rocks as
aggrieved
youths resident in the area called for the overhaul of the Presidential Amnesty
Programme (PAP) or else they return to the creeks.
According to
the youths, the region will witness fresh unrest and agitations despite
billions of naira already expended by the Federal Government on PAP unless
there is immediate overhaul of the programme which they alleged “is already a
veritable conduit for fraud, high-handedness and a complete negation of the
original intentions for which it was founded.”
A group, the
Voice of Niger Delta Youths (VNDY), in a release made available to The Guardian
during the weekend through its spokesman, Tonye Goodwill, specifically accused
the head of PAP and his aides of flagrant abuse and highhandedness while at the
same time boasting that nobody can touch them.
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