Vanguard
23 May 2011
Efforts by about 1,500 former militants in the Niger Delta to get enlisted into Federal Government’s post-amnesty programme may have hit the rocks, as government, weekend, foreclosed further extension of the deadline.
This came as 24 more former militants Saturday, left the shores of the country for oil and gas drilling training at Petroskills, Houston , Texas , United States
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kinglsey Kuku, who dropped hints of the foreclosure at the pre-departure media briefing for the 24 trainees in Lagos, weekend, said government had initially fixed October 4, 2009, deadline, which saw 20,192 former militants enlisting into the amnesty programme, adding that a further extension enabled another 6,126 others to join the programme.
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