Wednesday, May 25, 2011

FG destroys ex-militants' weapons today


Vanguard
25 May 2011

FG destroys ex-militants' weapons today

The Federal Government, will today, publicly destroy the arms and ammunition submitted to it by Niger Delta former agitators, who accepted the  amnesty programme in 2009.

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, who made the disclosure in Abuja, yesterday, said the historic exercise scheduled to take place at Lokpanta, a boundary town on the outskirts of Enugu, will bear testimony to the success of the amnesty programme.

A total of 295, 203 ammunition, 2, 909 weapons, 1,853, UXO, D-caps and dynamites, and 3,454 magazines will be destroyed in the exercise to be conducted by the Nigerian military

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