No fewer than 7,000 repentant militants in Akwa Ibom State are due to give up their arms today in Uyo and join the Niger Delta Amnesty programme.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Co-ordinator of the Amnesty Program, Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (rtd), said that the repentant militants declared their interest to disarm and join the Niger Delta Amnesty programme.
He told reporters after an inter-agency meeting to discuss the recent attack on pipelines in the Niger Delta that the ex-agitators had also declared their willingness to be involved in plans to ensure the security of pipelines and oil facilities in the region.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Ugure, had earlier hosted an inter-agency meeting, where strategies on how to counter the attacks on oil facilities were discussed.
Facilities belonging to the Nigeria Gas Company, Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, were blown up by suspected militants on Friday, January 15, in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.
This prompted the NNPC to shut down the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries.
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