March 31, (THEWILL) – Ex-militants from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to listen to the clamour from paid publicists and campaigners calling for the re-appointment of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd).
The ex-agitators, under the aegis of the Niger Delta Peace Renaissance, noted that the tenure of Ndiomu, Which expired on Friday, March 31, 2023, was characterized by fraud, desperate deletion of over 3,000 Amnesty beneficiaries from the database with their monthly allowances diverted for personal use, scholarship fraud, procurement fraud, unpaid and diversion of Amnesty beneficiaries’ allowances, bribery, incompetence and gross misconduct.
The aggrieved former agitators, led by Comrade Layeifa Dumbo, described the recent campaigns calling for the re-appointment of Ndiomu (rtd) as a “sponsored effort” by those involved in the alleged fraud in the amnesty programme,” we demand that Ndiomu and other top staff indicted over the rising cases of alleged fraud and diversion of funds under the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, should be sacked, investigated and arrested.”
“As at the moment, Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd.) Is out of the country in fear of the planned protest against his re-appointment and arrest, therefore, we call on President Buhari to allow the most senior civil servant to take charge of the Presidential Amnesty office for the next 60 days remaining life span of the present administration.”
“He made an open display of the alleged fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme when he suspended two account office staff (Mr. Cletus Robson and Mr. Olusegun) over the facts listed in the petitions filed against Interim Administrator, Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd.), and some senior staff for alleged fraud, forgery, gross misconduct and financial misappropriation.”
“Ndiomu has done a great disservice to the people of the region. His intentions for our people are wicked. He is the first Amnesty Boss in the history of the PAP not to deploy a single individual for vocational training, initiate any type of trade empowerment programmes, or deploy a single student for higher education to any university, despite the billions of naira at his disposal. Rather, he continually brags and boasts of delisting the names of our suffering people from the Amnesty Programme.”
The ex-militants and aggrieved beneficiaries frowned at the numerous fraud and corruption allegations levelled against the Interim Administrator week after week. They warned the allegedly paid handlers of Ndiomu’s social and news media to desist from using propaganda to spread misinformation to cover up the failures of their boss.
“We challenge any one of these paid propagandists to show us one positive project his administration has done since his appointment in September 2022. We are the true owners of the Amnesty Programme, and we will not keep silent as our funds are being siphoned by a corrupt individual, and for the memories of our loved ones, who sacrificed, fought and thousands of them died prior to the proclamation of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in 2009 be destroyed by an incompetent and corrupt individual.
“Since the appointment of the present administration into the Presidential Amnesty office, and with the billions of naira at his disposal, not a single PAP beneficiary or anyone from the Niger Delta region has been deployed for training or empowered. What a shame!”
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