PAP: Resign if you are not ready to serve your people -IPDI tells amnesty boss Ndiomu

• Says he will regret for delisting any ex-agitator for engaging in protesting

Foremost Niger Delta rights group, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI has told the presidential amnesty coordinator, Gen. Barry Ndiomu to resign if he was not ready to serve his people in the amnesty programme.

This came on the heels of the Gen. Barry Ndiomu’s recent threat to delist or suspend ex-agitators who may further join any protest against him over poor management of the programme.

The group which said it is a constitutional rights for any Nigerian citizen to embark on civil and lawful protest, noted that the current amnesty boss lacked power to suspend or delist ex-agitators from the programme for protesting against bad management of resources and policies.

This was made known to newsmen in a statement by the group’s national president Amb.(Comr). Ozobo Austin which a copy was sent to Congress correspondent on Wednesday.

The group said Ndiomu would be made to regret his actions should he delist or sack any ex-agitator for engaging in protest.

Ozobo maintained that ex-military officers who never supported Ijaw or Niger Delta struggle do not deserve to be appointed as coordinators in the amnesty programme.

He further added that Ndiomu and others who were rather a problem to the struggle should be ashamed for reaping from where they never sow.

The group gave a matching order to the amnesty coordinator with all alacrity to rectify ex-agitators with BVN challenges and ensured that their salaries be paid without further delay.

Ozobo asked the amnesty coordinator to withdraw his threat and derogatory utterances and render unreserved public apology to ex-agitators in immediate effect to avoid more protests that may remove him from office.