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Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
The Ijaw Youths Council Worldwide has warned that a second wave of militancy is looming in the Niger Delta region if the Federal Government fails to fully implement the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
The council said the country would not survive a return to militancy by aggrieved youths in the region and wondered why the government chose to play politics with an important scheme like PAP.
The IYC President, Timothy Igbifa, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday recalled that the amnesty project was initiated to take youths out of the creeks and integrate them into the society through a well-organised programme of empowerment and development of the region.