Special
Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the
Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has faulted an online
news portal, stating that the Amnesty programme of the government would
fail within months.
In a statement by the Head of Media and Communication
of the Amnesty Office on Thursday, Kuku insisted that the programme
would not fail, despite the activities of sea pirates in Niger Delta.
The Presidential aide said the pirates, whose
activities were carried in the report, might not necessarily come from
the Niger Delta and even Nigeria.
He said the government had ensured effective
demobilisation of the 26,358 ex-militants currently undergoing various
skill acquisition and formal education programmes after completing their
training.
Kuku said, “It should be noted that with Nigeria
producing between 2.4 and 2.6 million barrels of crude oil per day as
against the abysmally low 700,000 barrels per day at the peak of the
Niger Delta crisis in January 2009, we are currently making production
savings 1.9 million barrels per day for our beloved country.”
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