5th May, 2015
Adi Femi/Kaduna
Kaduna senator-elect and President Civil Rights Congress, Comrade Shehu Sani, has urged president-elect Muhammadu Buhari to scrap the amnesty programme in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
He also asked the president-elect to probe the programme before scrapping it.
According to Sani, the Amnesty programme initiated by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua for ex-militants in the Niger Delta is sham and should be discontinued by the Buhari-led administration.
He noted that the programme should have been a temporary gesture and not a permanent one as it is now.
Sani equally noted that a situation where some individuals have turned the Amnesty programme into a conduit pipe to drain the nation’s wealth is sad and regrettable.
The Senator-Elect who also accused President Jonathan administration of skewing development to the south-south alone instead spreading it to the north and south west regions, told Buhari to be a national and not regional leader.
He cautioned the president-elect to avoid a repeat of the mistake made the PDP-led government.
He also called on Nigerians to support Buhari’s administration to rebuild Nigeria and revamp the economy.