Nigerian Militants To Undergo Training In Ghana

n a bid to fully harness their potentials into productive ventures and integrate them back into the society, repentant militants in Bayelsa State in Nigeria are to be trained in Ghana.

Already the state Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Implementation Committee, Rev. Obegha Julius Oworibo, has travelled to Ghana to secure an institution where the repentant militants would under go training in various vocations.

The training programme, Vanguard learnt, is part of the state government’s Triple ‘E’ scheme of Empowerment, Engagement and Enforcement, mooted before the presidential amnesty came into being for militants in the Niger Delta. Secretary to Bayelsa State government, Mr. Gideon Ekeuwei, disclosed this in Yenagoa against the backdrop of protest by some former militants in the state over alleged non-payment of their allowances by the authorities.

According to the state government scribe, the state coordinator of the amnesty programme, Rev Oworibo, who incidentally is a permanent secretary in his office, had to travel to Ghana to make arrangement for the training of the repentant militants.

He expressed optimism that in no distant time, the state would once again assumed its toga of oasis of peace in the Niger Delta.

Secretary to the state government described the perceived disagreement between the ex-militants and their respective leaders as purely internal matters. He said the protest was not unusual, adding that the development was expected, especially when it had to do with the issue of disarmament.

He noted that other countries of the world in similar situation were experiencing the same problem.

“What they (militants) may have expected may not come out as expected. This is not to say that government has failed,” he said.

Prior to the amnesty offer and the recent arms haul recorded in the predominantly riverine state, Bayelsa is renowned as the hotbed of militancy and kidnapping in the Niger Delta.

It also had the highest number of armed militant camps in the troubled region.

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I think it's high time i broke up with my boyfriend for not being a militant, 

me wey i be broadcaster sef, i never go Ghana for training, interesting, 

matiltom,

Gud for you

The militant seems to be like COWs taking to farm to browse! You know,i won't like you to wish your BF to be a militant, as for me and my friendz.Those militant seems be like an animal to us and i think the government too is dealing with them like a group of hopeless individuals.

Another opportunity for some embezzlement, I'm sure half of the money meant for the training will safely land in some ppl's pockets.

PAININASS

Are they not going to create problems in Ghana? Won't they resort to training Ghana's brand of thier type? This is like Nigerians exporting their trouble to Ghana. Sense might have departed the Ghanaian authorities.

Ghanaian authorities ought to watch these guys closely with a microscope- If they let these militants run loose in Ghana they'll end up with a problem they'll find extremely difficult to tackle. All it takes to crack the calm in Ghana is for one MEND member undergoing 'rehab' to grab some urchins in Accra and let them into the monetary gains of blowing pipelines and kidnapping expatriates. I hope Ghana knows what they've got on their their hands

can somebody give me the contact for the presidential committee on Amnesty? I'm also a millitant from Ibadan. I no get gun to surrender, only cutlass

no way this thing is gonna happen. they are not welcome in ghana. we don't believe they are serious about de-militarising.

do u mean Nigeria cant even train them? (militant)

Never worry Matildom,  I promise u,  he will surely send you to Sudan for coverage,   

am getting sick of this GHANA patronage by NIGERIA on almost everthing.this days,when we want to do anything its ghana we fall back to.
i hope this patronage will not degenerate into humiliation and disgrace and maybe repatriation like we are currently getting from libya and south africa.
Before u know it,any crime in ghana will be attributed to the high population of nigerians there.

I think is a welcome development if is done well.

so what is in ghana that is not here. this is capital freight.

you must be a sooothsayer,

i concur totally!

^Innocent ignorance shining there. You have never been to the ND.

Military baracks in the creeks, thats too funny! Even the navy can't survive there.