Nigeria: 183 Ex-Niger Delta Militants Sue Nigerian Govt, Presidential Amnesty Programme

The 183 ex-Niger Delta militants are challenging the stoppage of their monthly stipends the Nigerian government was paying them under the presidential amnesty scheme.

No fewer than 183 former Niger Delta agitators have sued the federal government over alleged stoppage of their monthly allowances.

The 183 ex-militants joined the coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) as defendants in 17 separate suits they filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

In one of the suits marked:…

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