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18 Feb 2011
The special adviser to the president on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku, yesterday said the federal government would no longer provide state pardon for militants who have not dropped their arms.
Mr. Kuku, who spoke with journalists in Okitipupa local government area of Ondo State
He noted that the federal government would no longer allow any group of people to hold the nation to ransom through hostage taking and other vices.
“To a very large extent, there will be nobody to be pardoned again, if you don’t drop your arms now and you don’t embrace this measure of peace. I do not think there is anybody still armed in the Niger Delta in an organised form against the federal government. Whoever bears arm today has the law to contend with,” Mr. Kuku said.
He said no fewer than 26, 356 youth, who were formerly armed and involved in serious organised criminal activities in the area under different groups, had so far embraced the amnesty programme.
He disclosed that they had disarmed and that a lot of them were currently undergoing certain demobilisation and re-integration programmes either in vocational training or purely academic, onshore and offshore.
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