The group of trainers enlisted by the Presidential Amnesty Programme protesting the non-payment of salaries have while insisting that unless their concerns were attended to, they would still go ahead with the 30-day protest but flayed being classed as ex-militants as they were professional engineers.
However, they acknowledged that the office had reached out to and were currently engaging them towards addressing and resolving their complaint which they insisted were genuine. They explained in a statement that it was a mistake to refer to them as ex-militants simply because they worked under the programme, pointing out that they were chosen, trained to help train the ex- militants, a reason they were issued with employment letters for the job