By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa
Ex militants under the auspice of third phase amnesty Wednesday  said the training and retraining of the youths in the Niger Delta should not be left for the federal government amnesty office alone.

According to the group, it needs the collaboration of the state governments, the multinational corporation and other intervention agencies to sustain the existing peace in the region.

National Secretary, Third Phase Amnesty, Sam Odogwu who spoke on behalf of the group called on President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the multinational corporations operating in the region, the state governments, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to also assist in the training and re-training of youths in the Niger Delta.

Odogwu who dissociated his members from the alleged complicity in the killing of military personnel in the Bayelsa waterways said having voluntarily surrendered their arms to the federal government there was no way they could have embarked on such reckless attack on security operatives in the creek of the state.

An ex-militant who identified himself as Victor, the acclaimed leader of the group which, shot dead the military personnel had alleged that the security operatives were killed because of the federal government’s refusal to incorporate ex-militants who had been left out of the amnesty programme.

The Third Phase amnesty, scribe said the alleged leader of the killer gang who simply identified himself as Victor has nothing to do with their group, which is clamouring to the included in the federal government amnesty programme.

“We wish to categorically state that ‘Victor’, the acclaimed killer of four military personnel, in Brass LGA Bayelsa State is not on the list of registered members of the Third Phase Amnesty group,” Odogwu said in a statement in Yenagoa.

Odogwu added, “by virtue of my position I know everybody that disarmed in this group by their name and faces however Victor the acclaimed killer as a person is not in our records.”

He said after signing a pact with the federal government and the national security personnel, they have no business to start attacking military personnel and oil facilities in the Niger Delta and warned what those he described as impostors to desist from wrongfully using the name, third phase amnesty to perpetuate criminality in the region.

Odogwu warned that its members are on the watch out to fish out persons bent on dragging the Third Phase Amnesty into the mud and hand them over to the security agencies.

-Vanguard

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