Payment of stipends to former Niger Delta Militants who were captured in the 2009 Presidential Amnesty Programme of the federal government has resumed.
The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency pay 5-month backlog of stipends being owed ex-militants of the Niger Delta region in Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Paul Boroh, has pleaded with youths from the Niger Delta not to panic or be agitated by the delay in the payment of their amnesty stipends.
Three former Niger-Delta militants, who were sent to the UK on scholarship under the amnesty programme, have graduated with First class Honours in their respective disciplines and another eighteen of them graduated with Second Class Upper.