President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a Coordinator for the Presidential Amnesty Programme which provides payments and scholarships to Niger Delta ex-militants.
The new Coordinator, retired Brigadier General P.T. Boroh, will double as Special Adviser to the president on the Niger Delta. He enters the position after it lay vacant for some months.
The person who held the position in the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, Kingsley Kuku, was summoned last week for questioning by the EFCC. An EFCC source said Mr. Kuku and two colleagues are suspected of embezzlement and diversion of public funds worth hundreds of millions of naira.
The appointment of General Boroh comes less than a week after President Buhari’s official visit to the US, where he made controversial comments about his intention to address issues, including the amnesty program, in the Niger Delta.
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement that Mr. Boroh’s appointment will hopefully resolve the PAP’s failure to make payments to its beneficiaries, some of whom are on scholarship abroad and have been stranded or kicked out of their institutions when their source of money was cut off.
A group of thirteen ex-militants, for example, was sent away from the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Frankfurt, Germany, due to the non-payment of their fees. Other ex-militants have also been sent packing by their various institutions in South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, and several countries in Europe.
Title : Buhari Appoints New Coordinator for Niger Delta Amnesty Programme
Description : President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a Coordinator for the Presidential Amnesty Programme which provides payments and scholarships t...