An Ijaw group in Edo State known as United Front For Good Governance (UFFGG), has commended the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki especially on the
Ex-militants issue protest notice to Amnesty office
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By Nnamdi Ojiego
Leaders of the Phase 3 of the Presidential Amnesty programme, have given May 18, 2021, as deadline for Col. Milland Dixon Dikio, the Presidential Amnesty Interim Administrator, to convey an emergency stakeholders meeting to address issues affecting them.
The agitators, from the six states of the Niger Delta region, after a well attended meeting held in Warri, Delta state, said the call for the meeting has become necessary to address what they called “critical issues of verification” to ensure that the Amnesty office only deals with the authentic leaders of the programme.
Niger Delta intervention agencies’ leaders not spending funds appropriately
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By Ozioruva Aliu
A former militant leader in Edo state, Ogidigba Godstime condemned the way and manner resources meant for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and other intervention agencies like the Presidential Amnesty and the Ministry of Niger Delta were being underutilised just as he accused the presidency of deliberately putting stooges at the helm of affairs of intervention agencies.
On the funding of the NDDC, Godstime said: “The NDDC has not been properly funded but the little that the Presidency has channeled into the NDDC is also being mismanaged by the leadership of the commission either in an interim or substantive capacity. We believe that every little resource that is channeled to the area should be judiciously used to develop the region because that region is crying for help but the problem is the imposition of leadership, the imposition of which manages the agency; this a