FG denies N'Delta ex-militants forum

The Sun

24 Feb 2011

FG denies N'Delta ex-militants forum
•••Says group unknown

The Federal Government yesterday stated that the Niger Delta Ex-Militant Forum is unknown to it and that it never promised to pay any ex-militant, who accepted its amnesty programme in 2009 housing allowance. The government equally alleged that those parading themselves as members of the forum were being sponsored by crisis profiteers who did not mean well for either the programme or the nation.

In a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, kingsley Kuku, said ‘government is not owing Niger Delta ex-combatants.” According to the statement: “The attention of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Hon. Kingsley Kuku has been drawn to the activities of certain persons who parade themselves as members of a nebulous group, Transformed Niger Delta Ex-Militant Forum.”

“It has been confirmed that these persons are operating without the mandate, support and backing of known leaders of the Niger Delta ex-combatants or even the teeming populace of the transformed ex-combatants.