Tribune
21 March 2011
The ongoing implementation of the Post-Amnesty Programme by the Federal Government, which took off in June, 2010, despite knocks from critics, appears to be sailing along uninterruptedly. Though, there were doubts in some quarters on the viability of the programme packaged to address militancy and youths’ restiveness in the hitherto troubled Niger Delta region, unfolding positive developments in the nation’s oil outputs as a result of the response of the ex-fighters to the amnesty sermon have brought to the fore the positive impacts of the Post-Amnesty initiative.
Before the amnesty, declared by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, oil production capacity of Nigeria dropped to less than a million barrel per day, precisely to a little above 700 barrels per day, courtesy of the activities of the militants, who often disrupted oil exploration and exploitation businesses in the Niger Delta, through the bombing of oil installation facilities, attacks on oil barges as well as the kidnapping of expatriates.
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