Amnesty office denies owing ex-agitators

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Coordinator Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo

By Jacinta Nwachukwu /Uche Bibilari

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) is up-to-date with payment of stipends, books and in-training allowances to Niger Delta ex-militants.

Mr Murphy Ganagana, Special Assistant Media to the Coordinator, PAP, Prof. Charles Dokubo, made this known in an  interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja while responding to claims by some people that the Amnesty office owed.

Ganagana said that the payment of allowances to the beneficiaries have been regular and prompt ever since the present leadership took over the management of the Amnesty programme.

“As we speak today, we are not owing ex-agitators under the Amnesty programme any stipends, in-training  or books allowances,. We have paid up-to -date as funds are being released.

“We are also not owing in-training allowances to any scholarship beneficiary of the programme, especially those within the…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria