Amnesty: Phase 3 Generals Accuse Dikkio on attempt to shortchange Real Beneficiaries

Amnesty: Phase 3 Generals Accuse Dikkio on attempt to shortchange Real Beneficiaries

.......Call on Delta State SSA on Security, Daniel Ezekiel to intervene

........ Insist fake beneficiaries inducted into amnesty corporatives

Timi Black

Angry leaders and stakeholders of the 3rd phase amnesty programme have cried out over what they described as an attempt to short-changed some supposed legitimate beneficiaries into the amnesty corporative programme by the interim administrator, Colonel Dikio Miland.

This is was contained in a press statement signed by Hon. Ogidigba Godstime, (Edo state), Gen. Clement Ofovwei (Delta state), Gen. Kenneth Kpea (Rivers state), Gen. Whiteman Ijiel (Bayelsa state)

Gen. Godwin Governor,

(Ondo State) on Thursday.

The 3rd phase leaders alleged that over 50% of the people in 3rd phase incorporated into the amnesty corporate society by the interim administrator were not genuine leaders, delegates or beneficiaries of the amnesty Programme.

The protesting stakeholders stated that a proper verification exercise be carried out before constituting the corporative societies to capture the genuine leaders of the 3rd Phase.

The 3rd phase leaders also called on Hon. Ezekiel Daniel, senior Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on security matters to come to their rescue by prevailing on the interim coordinator of the Amnesty programme not to fall prey to some cabals in the amnesty office.

According to them, the genuine leaders of the 3rd phase be captured into the corporative programme, instead of fake persons being incorporated into the amnesty corporative programme in as much they were not against the idea of Dikio inducting Ex-Agitators into Corporate Societies.

They accused politicians of hijacking contracts that supposed to be awarded to real beneficiaries of the amnesty programme, adding that corporatives submitted to the amnesty office do not represent the interest of the genuine leaders of the amnesty programme from the various states but were made to serve the myopic interest of some stakeholders and corrupt Bayelsa and Delta States politicians.

The protesting leaders also accused Tonye led Exco of some 3rd phase amnesty delegates of embezzling #900, 000.00 of the transport stipend that was given by the amnesty coordinator at the aborted stakeholders meeting.

However, below is the Press Statement attached:

PRESS RELEASE

That President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria approved the verification of Thirty Thousand (30,000) delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) that if there is no hidden agenda by the Amnesty Office as regards the verification exercise Col. Minlland Dikio should immediately carry out the verification exercise as approved by Mr. President which we strongly believe will address all the rot and corruption in the Amnesty Program, scoping the verification exercise sent danger and very bad signal to us the genuine Leaders of the Amnesty Program.

We make bold to say that 50% of the people in 3rd phase Minlland Dikio constitutes into Corporative Societies are not genuine Leaders, Delegates or Beneficiaries of the Amnesty Program, therefore carry out the verification exercise before constituting the Corporative Societies will capture the genuine leaders of Phase 3.

The verification should be based on State Level because all the leaders have their disarmament Certificate with them and their details are in the data at their various states which are with the various Security Agencies who disarm them, which will helps to filter away these fake Amnesty Leaders who were brought in to the Program through the back door by corrupt Politicians and Stakeholders from the Niger Delta region.

That we are not against the ideas of Minlland Dikio involving Ex-Agitators into Corporate Societies, but only genuine leaders should be captured into the Program so as to avoid what happened during his predecessors administration, Prof. Charles Dokubo, who came up with Empowerment Program for the Ex-Agitator Leaders. At the end, it was hijacked by Politicians, Stakeholders and Abuja based Ijaw Youths whom were not Delegates neither Beneficiaries of the Amnesty Program were the ones gaining award letters for training Delegates and Supply of Accessories to the Amnesty Office and later, we the genuine Leaders of Phase 1-3 were just compensated with money in the name of the office monetized the contracts and paid the leaders some amount of money without issuing award letters to any of the Leaders from Phase 1-3.

That those Corporative submitted to the Amnesty office so far does not represent the interest of the genuine leaders of the Amnesty Program from the various States but rather, it represents Bayelsa State and some corrupt Politicians and Stakeholders from the Niger Delta Region.

There is no doubt that the administrative style of Miland Dikio has helped in sustaining the fragile peace we enjoy in the Niger Delta region and also his desire to change the negative narrative of the region into a better place where business can strive and investors to have confidence to invest their money in the Niger Delta region but he has to trend with caution.

That the Amnesty Program was not named after a particular state in the Niger Delta region as it has become unbearable for the other states, the ways and manners Bayelsa is seeing the Amnesty Program as their personal property and the other states have no say. On that note, we urge Miland Dikio to separately distribute whatever the Amnesty Office have for leaders or impacted communities to the various states that are captured in the Program.

That the One million, Five Hundred Thousand naira (N1,500,000) that was realized for Phase 3 leaders headed by Tonye Bobo by the Amnesty Office for transportation for the fifteenth person from five states that was to hold a meeting with Miland Dikio to address the issues affecting phase 3 Amnesty program though the meeting was cancelled for another date. As we speak, the money was confiscated by Tonye Bobo and his Exco thereby giving Delta State Three Hundred Thousand Naira (N300,000), Ondo State, Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000), Edo State, Fifty Thousand Naira (N50,000), Rivers State, Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000), the rest Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N950,000) was embezzled by Tonye Bobo and his Exco. For the sake of transparency and accountability, we urge the Amnesty Office, Department of State Security Service (DSS) and other Security Agencies, to invite Mr. Tonye Bobo and his Excoto give account on how the One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,500,000) was distributed.

Finally, we thank the DSS and other Security Agencies for their prompt intervention in managing the Ticking Time Bomb that is about to explode in the Niger Delta Region.

We are equally using this medium to call on Honourable Ezekiel Daniel, senior Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on security matters to come to our rescue by calling the attention of interim coordinator of Amnesty program to the evil game of a cabal in that office.

Sign:

Hon. Ogidigba Godstime

Edo state.

Gen. Clement Ofovwei

Delta State.

Gen. Kenneth Kpea

Rivers state.

Gen. Whiteman Ijiel

Bayelsa State.

Gen. Godwin Governor

Ondo State.