The Presidency disclosed yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari will investigate the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this yesterday while featuring on Kaakaki, a programme of the African Independent Television (AIT).
The presidential spokesman said the amnesty programme was replete with corruption and that to continue with it, the president would have to study and look at the whole package.
“Don’t also forget that if a situation or process was riddled with corruption and you come saying you are going to clean up the system, and then you continue to just run on the same steam of what you met on ground then you have not changed anything,” he stated.
“There are a lot of issues about it and the president is studying those issues. After he has finished studying them, the package will be unfolded on amnesty,” Adesina added.
“Talking of amnesty and all that, the President has said he still believes in the programme and will keep it going. But that he is studying the report. He is studying the one he met on ground. When he studies it fully something will be done”, the presidential spokesman said.
He also described as untrue, the claims in some quarters that Buhari’s government had neglected the Niger Delta region, stressing that the president will invoke the principle of federal character to ensure that no section of Nigeria was marginalised.