Yenagoa – Ex militant leaders in the Niger Delta Thursday threatened to storm Abuja in protest over what they described as the inability of the Federal Government to guarantee their safety alleging that four of their members had been brutally killed in the last one year after embracing the amnesty programme.
The former creek warlords under the aegis of Peace Keeping Ex Militants Forum who converged Thursday in Yenagoa to review the progress of the Federal Government’s Amnesty programme described the development as disturbing as some of them could no longer move freely for fear of the being attacked.
The ex militant leaders who also agreed to stop deduction from the monthly allowance of their boys however called on the Amnesty Committee to look into their welfare as they (leaders) cannot be collecting the same amount with their boys.
Gen Pastor Rueben who led twelve other ex militant leaders drawn from Bayelsa, Delta and Edo State while commending late President Musa Yar’Adua for initiating the Amnesty programme which brought about the relative calm in the once troubled region lamented that some of the promises made to them had not been fulfilled.
Pastor Reuben who once controlled a camp on the Akassa fringe of the Atlantic Ocean lamented that in the last one year four of their senior colleagues had been killed by unknown persons after voluntarily accepting the federal government amnesty.
SOURCE: Vanguard
