PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON AMNESTY, BORO RULES OUT GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATION WITH NIGER DELTA MILITANTS

Presidential Adviser on Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Brig. General Paul Boroh (rtd), has affirmed that the federal government would not negotiate with the ‘criminal group’ called Niger Delta Avengers.

Boroh made this statement while addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt in the early hours of Thursday on the sidelines of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to flag-off the clean up of Ogoniland and the implementation of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

According to him, “all ex-agitators captured in the Amnesty Programme have all dissociated themselves from the criminal activities of the Niger Delta Avengers. Amnesty office has dissociated itself from them as well. We are going to work with the security agencies to fish them to face the law.”

Asked if there was possibility of negotiating with them, he said: “That is not the subject matter. We have all dissociated ourselves from them. Even the upcoming ones have no room in the Amnesty Programme. We have no room for the Niger Delta Avengers in our programme.”

On the threat by the militant group to continue the bombing the national assets and talking tough to the Nigerian military, he said the Avengers were talking as if they had the wherewithal to confront the Nigerian military.

“One of the strengths of criminal gangs is propaganda, let them continue to propagate falsehood,” he said.