JTF warns ex-militants against sabotaging oil installations

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named Operation Restore Hope, on Wednesday, warned that it would not spare any ex-militant that sabotages the nation’s oil installations or breaches the existing peace in the region.

Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre of JTF, Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Antigha, gave the warning against the backdrop of the seven-day ultimatum issued by the aggrieved ex-militants agitating for inclusion into the amnesty programme.

He advised them to thread the path of dialogue with the relevant authorities saddled with the implementation of the amnesty programme.

“The JTF will not be drawn into any discussion on the merit or demerit of the inclusion or exclusion of the protesting agitators into the rehabilitation process. The aspect of inclusion in the amnesty programme is within the province of the amnesty committee.

“However, the JTF wishes to advice the so-called 2nd or 3rd phase ex-militants to seek peaceful ways of achieving their objectives, because the threat of violence being employed in this regard will most certainly not end their favour,” Antigha said.

The aggrieved ex-militant youths under the aegis of the 2nd batch extension programme had, at the weekend, handed a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to recognise and include them in the amnesty programme or face sanctions from the group.

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