Former leaders of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rise and tackle
security issues currently threatening the nation.
The
ex-militants leaders made this call at a meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa
State capital at the weekend to review the activities of the
administration of President Buhari.
In a communiqué issued after
the meeting, the former militant leaders said they were worried over the
renewed attacks in Plateau, Kano, Kaduna and Maiduguri states where
the Boko Haram sect killed hundreds of innocent persons.
Commending Buhari for the recent bailout to states, they urged him to
extend the same gesture to beneficiaries of the presidential amnesty
scheme.
The communiqué read in part: “Each day we are inundated
with calls from home and aboard of our members who are amnesty
beneficiaries passing through various harrowing experiences at school,
while some at Igbinedion University are on the verge of being barred
from writing their final year examinations since they could not pay
their fees; some at Jordan schooling have been totally evicted from
their homes and now leaving on handouts from friends.
“We also commended Mr. President on the recent bailout to the states
owing workers salaries and that he should extend the same gesture to
the amnesty beneficiaries, home and abroad, studying in one university
or the other, because some of the amnesty beneficiaries are being
threatened by community police abroad since they could not pay their
house rents or school fees”.
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This their divide and rule need to stop
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