Many former militant youths from Bayelsa and Delta states on Thursday, April 10, 2014 sought a court order for them to be included in the Federal Government’s Amnesty programme.
The youths stormed the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa seeking an order the special adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee, Kingsley Kuku and the Amnesty Committee to honour a said agreement they reached with the Federal Government to include them in programme.
The aggrieved youths claim they accepted amnesty and surrendered their weapons to the amnesty office in 2011 under the third phase of the Peace Initiative of the Federal Government. But the Amnesty Committee refused to include them in the ongoing programme.
The suit FHC/YNG/123/2014 filed before Justice Lambo Akanbi is coming four years after the Federal Government closed participation in the programme.
The youths went ahead to file the suit claiming the committee refused to keep to their own end of the bargain after series of resolutions from meetings with the past and present National Security Advisers to the President, Late General Owoye Azazi and Col. Dasuki Sambo respectively.
