The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu (rtd) has affirmed that the Programme remains a critical tool to mitigate conflicts in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. The PAP as initiated and signed into law by late former President Umaru Yar’Adua on June 25, 2009, was conceived as a special intervention programme of the Federal Government to disarm, demobilze and reintegrate ex-agitators who responded to calls to lay down their arms. While delivering a lecture on Friday at the National Defence College Abuja, General Ndiomu…
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