First Phase Ex Agitators Call On NSA To Intervene in Crisis Brewing In PAP Office.

 

The Niger Delta First Phase Ex-agitators Leadership Forum, Bayelsa State Chapter has appealed to the  National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to as a matter of urgency take an urgent  action  to stop the crisis that is  gradually brewing at the presidential amnesty office because of an alleged removal of Great Joshua Maciber's name from the database of the programme.

In a statement on Monday, High Chief. Charles Kurobo,  alleged that an  investigation of the forum revealed that the Interim Administrator of the PAP, Gen. Barry Ndiomu (rtd), without any reasonable course directed that all the entitlements of the APC Guber running mate, Great Joshua MacIver, who was the first to embrace the amnesty programme with over 200 followers be stopped.

The group therefore wondered why  the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP)  will  alledgedly  delist the running mate to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State from its payroll.

According to  the group,  investigation of the forum revealed that the Interim Administrator of the PAP, Gen. Barry Ndiomu (rtd), without any reasonable course directed that all the entitlements of the APC Guber running mate, Great Joshua MacIver, who was the first to embrace the amnesty program with over 200 followers, should be withdrawn.

The group said that the height of the controversy is when the PAP claimed that Great Maciver, a major critical stakeholder of the first phase ex-agitators who surrendered arms alongside his foot soldiers numbering well above 200 from his own personal camp  and have remained  beneficiaries of the programme with their ID Card numbers and monthly stipends is no longer part of the programme.

The ex-agitators said that they may be forced to resort to extreme measures to resolving the anomalies since efforts to make the PAP boss see reasons with them has continued to fell on deaf ears.

The statement  read "Sequel to appeals and complains concerning the style and gross lack of integrity of the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) office under the current administrator, we are writing to notify the National Security Adviser (NSA) of the lingering controversies between the office  and its beneficiaries.

"We are appealing and looking up to the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, with the hope that a swift action will be taken to avert the crisis that is brewing  because we feel pushed too close to the edge already. We will not be swayed by Ndiomu as it has become clear that he is not on the side of Peace."

"His actions has continued to put pressure on the leadership of the forum with limited resources to douse the tension while calls for the attention on PAPunder Ndiomu has continuously fallen on  dead ears.

 "We have almost exhausted the immediate and most preferred formal means of communication in trying to reach out to the leadership of the PAP as beneficiaries and stakeholders of the Region. 

"We have been receiving series of complains over non payment of monthly stipends from a large number of the PAP beneficiaries which has kept us awake most nights and while we continue to apply corporate and more responsible measures of going about it.

"PAP  office has further dared us to claim that one of our own, De-Great Joshua Maciver, a major critical stakeholder of the first phase ex-agitator who surrendered arms alongside his foot soldiers numbering  above 200 from his own personal Camp alone were captured and have remained  beneficiaries of the programme with their ID Card numbers and monthly stipends.

"Such  a critical major stakeholder who is a popularly and notably well known leader in the PAP satabase is suddenly not on the database of the PAP is appalling.

"Would  this had done same if Joshua Maciver shared his political interest? Or If Ex-militants are not fit for political offices across the region. Why then do we have one of our own (Rt. Hon Abraham Ingobere) as speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly ?  The statement asked.