FG Starts Direct Payment To Niger Delta Ex-Militants

Date: 07-01-2016 7:38 pm (8 years ago) | Author: KAMAL BANKOLE
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President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has commenced the direct payment of salaries into the account of former militants of the Niger Delta region. The Niger Delta ex-militants were paid the sum of N65, 000 monthly stipends including the three months arrears owed them. Leadership reports that the chief of staff in the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Colonel Dedis Abel (Rtd), launched the direct payment exercise in Port Harcourt, the Rivers Stare capital, on Wednesday, January 6. The ex-militants were paid the sum of N65, 000 monthly stipends including the three months arrears owed them. Colonel Abel hinted that the federal government has stopped making payments through leaders of the ex- militants. “The Amnesty Office took the decision to pay the ex- agitators directly following reports of complicity and short-changing of some of them

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WAO, DIS A GUD DEVELOPMENT.
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