LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Chief Okrika, former Chairman of DESOPADEC, Prince Monday Whiskey has described the appointment of retired Brigadier General Peter Boroh as not only a welcome development, but also a big relieve to the entire Niger Delta region, especially all genuine ex-agitators.
Whiskey who expressed his gratitude over the appointment of the retired Army General strongly adviced him to see his appointment as a call to duty and to urgently remedy an almost bad situation, adding that he must be firm, fair and show greater commitment by ensuring that equity returns to the programme and ensure that those who merited the benefit of the programme were carried along.
He maintained that the appointment of the retired army general has also shown that President, General Muhammadu Buhari is a listening leader whose policies and programme should be supported to reposition our great country.
“I sincerely commend all ex-agitators for not allowing the situation to degenerate even at the peak of pressure and open intimidation from several quarters, the leadership of the Urhobo Youth Assembly (UYA), the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) and other patriotic ethnic pressure group across the Niger Delta must be commended for standing up to be counted at the crucial stage of our national survival.
“The new amnesty boss must urgently settle down and ensure that those beneficiary who were wrongly send to Nigeria because of lack of payment from the amnesty office are immediately returned back to their respective institution of learning.
Finally, there is an urgent need for the amnesty boss to convene an urgent critical stakeholders meeting to chat a way forward for geniune ex-agitators who were deliberately schemed out by the power that be by the immediate past administration of the amnesty programme,” Whiskey advised.