Increase The Pace Of Your Governance - Militants Tell PMB

Former militant commanders and ex-members of
the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta
(MEND) have asked President Muhammadu Buhari
to increase the pace of his government.
The former creek warlords rose from their meeting
in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, over the weekend and
declared that Buhari should speed up and
formulate policies to tackle rising security and
economic challenges in the country.
The ex-militant leaders who met under the
auspices of Leadership ,Peace and Cultural
Development Initiative (LPCDI) deliberated on
issues bordering on new wave of Boko Haram
onslaughts, the economy and unpaid amnesty
allowances.
In a communique issued by the former militants
and signed by the President, LPCDI, Mr. Reuben
Clifford, they condemned the recent terrorist
attacks in Plateau, Kano, Kaduna and Maiduguri,
which claimed the lives of over hundred people.
They urged Buhari to rethink his earlier decision of
dismantling military checkpoints in volatile parts of
northern Nigeria.
They said: “We are dismayed by the slow pace of
this present administration of tackling the economy
challenges by not constituting a formidable team
made up of technocrats to run the affairs of the
nation. The president’s slow attitude is making
mockery of the ‘change’ slogan he and his party
canvassed for during electioneering .
“On each day we are inundated with calls home
and abroad of our members who are amnesty
beneficiaries passing through various harrowing
experiencing at schools.
“While some at Igbinedion University are on verge
of being barred from writing their final year
examinations since they could not pay their fees,
others in Jordan schooling have been totally
evicted from their homes and now leaving on
handouts from friends”.
While commending the President for his recent
bailout to distressed states, they asked him to
extend similar gesture to stranded persons
undergoing training at home and abroad under the
Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).
They appealed to Buhari to give directives to
someone to sign for the disbursement of funds at
the Amnesty Office claiming that about N5bn was
left in the office by the former Coordinator of PAP,
Mr. Kingsley Kuku.
“If nothing is done soonest, it could snowball into
a full scale crises. The President should save us
from this excruciating agony .
“We want the present administration to wield its
might by keeping to its word that ‘Boko Haram will
soon know the collective will our are power’. The
government should engage various stakeholders to
put an end to this callous, ruthless and senseless
killings of innocent soul”