…as ex-militants hail Semenitari’s appointment as NDDC MD

Dr Chris Ekiyor, former President, Ijaw Youth Council, has appealed to the Federal Government not to scrap the amnesty programme in 2016. This call comes as ex-militants under the ae­gis of National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitator, NCNDE-A, have described the newly appointed Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mrs Ibm Sem­initari, as the region’s best hand, most qualified and trusted.

Ekiyor, the former IYC leader told the media on Thursday in Port Harcourt that the action could “lure the ex-militants into temptation.’’

He urged the government to take a holistic view of what the programme had achieved since its inception and what could happen if it was scrapped.

“If the federal government says it has successfully implemented the amnesty programme, how has it impacted on the beneficiaries?

“Is it by the monthly stipends they receive?

“Out of the 30,000 ex-militants pencilled for training by the federal government, less than 15,000 have been trained; is the government going to abandon the remaining 15,000?

“The initial design of the programme was to empower the beneficiaries and make them economically viable,“ he said.

Ekiyor said that some of the beneficiaries, who were still undergoing training at home and abroad, would be abandoned in their various institutions if the government stops funding the programme.

In a related development The National President of the group, Mr Israel Akpodoro, revealed this in a telephone chat with our correspondent over the weekend stressing that the Seminitari who was a former Commissioner for Information in Rivers State has paid her dues professionally as a journalist and politician to the Nigerian State and therefore deserves her current appointment.

According to Akpodoro, the NDDC needs someone like Seminitari who was the Publisher of the Business Eye Magazine to manage it noting that as a publisher and administrator she has seen it all and therefore has all it takes to bring the developmental vision of President Muhammadu Buhari, to bear on the Niger Delta region in her capacity as the manager of such federal government’s intervention agency.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/dont-scrap-amnesty-programme-ex-iyc-president-urges-fg/

Why? Amnesty programme no dey finish?
Oil price is $36 per barrel and ND youth keep ranting.
All this Niger delta youth keep disturbing distracting Allah sent PMB. But their evil plans will not work. The president as the C in C of Nigeria can scrap it if it is marred by corruption...
Let us all support our president to make our country Nigeris great again.

Mallam Seif al Din.

Hmm