13 February 2011
The Federal Government has rejected the $30 million purportedly contributed by various oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to support the post-amnesty programme, describing the figure as completely unacceptable.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters, Hon. Kingsley Kuku, while making his opening remarks at a post-amnesty review conference in Lagos yesterday, said the $30 million clearly showed the companies were not committed to government’s plans to rehabilitate and re-integrate about 26,358 ex-combatants who gave up arms and embraced the amnesty option offered them.
He also said the amount cannot bring about any meaningful development either to the youths of the Niger Delta or the region as a whole that have suffered perennial degradation.
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