Buhari Ready To Partner With Ex-militants On Security In The Niger Delta Says Presidency

The Federal Government weekend restated its readiness to collaborate with ex-militants in the oil rich Niger Delta region to ensure protection of lives and properties in the region.

The Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants, Brig-Gen. Paul Boro (rtd) said President Muhammadu Buhari desires peace in the region, hence, his administration was willing to engage relevant stakeholders to address all forms of illegality in the region.

Boro was speaking as a special guest in a forum organised by Riverine Security, (Coast-Guard of the Federation), a group of all ex-militants in the Niger Delta region, in Abuja.

Represented by Major Matti Abdul (rtd), Boro maintained that all hands must be on deck to ensure safety of water ways and communities in order to promote economic development in the region.

“We have come to say a big no to militancy, oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism and all other familiar vices that have impeded the rapid development of the Niger Delta and Nigeria at large,” the Commandant General of the Coast-Guard of the Federation, Oduku Bibi had said in his remarks.