On FG’s intentions on Amnesty Programme
IN one of his rare public outings, the National Security Adviser, NSA, retired Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno, penultimate weekend appeared to confirm the worst fears of some stakeholders in the Niger Delta when he announced that he had advised President Muhammadu Buhari to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.
The NSA complained that the eleven-year-old programme has gulped N712 billion which he said is “basically unaccounted for, and this is due to so many issues, corruption being the main thing”. He also said the programme was not supposed to continue indefinitely. “There is no place on the surface of this earth where programmes that are supposed to be palliatives will continue forever”.
