Bayelsa elders report Kachikwu, Boroh to Buhari

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Office, Brigadier General Paul Boroh, have been fingered as those frustrating efforts by the Federal Government to dialogue with the militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.

They insisted that both men met with fake Avengers.

The accusation was made in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari by prominent elders and traditional rulers in Bayelsa State.

The elders and traditional rulers under the aegis of Bayelsa Elders for Progress, Peace and Good Governance, in the letter signed by their Coordinator, Chief Ayibatonye Goodnews, and ‎the Secretary, Chief Lucky Ebifaghe, though commended President Buhari for offering to lead the dialogue, they however condemned aides of the president from the region for their alleged display of deceit, insincerity and discordant tunes.

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This, the elders said had led to a huge doubt between the militant youths and the Federal Government, while also calling for an investigation into the purported meetings held by Kachikwu and Boroh with stakeholders in the region to ascertain its genuineness.

“How can they claim to have met stakeholders and the militant attacks continue? They met some fake militants and stakeholders and wasted scarce resources of the Federal Government on jamboree.

“The Amnesty boss, who claimed to have relocated to the creeks of the region was only sighted in a certain community holding clandestine meetings without solution to the continued bombing of the oil and gas facilities.

“Buhari should investigate the money expended on the jamboree without result. We insist that the Presidential Amnesty Office should be probed following the alleged meeting with fake Avengers.”

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