Amnesty Office Raises Alarm On Mayhem Plot .

THE Presidential Amnesty Office has called the attention of security agencies to a plot by certain persons to cause mayhem in the Niger Delta.

The Office, in a statement issued yesterday, said it has been reliably informed that the amnesty programme is the target of a series of proposed politically motivated protests to begin from Uyo in Akwa Ibom State and spread to other oil producing states.

“We deem it necessary to inform Nigerians and the unsuspecting public that some politicians have surreptitiously been funding ill-motivated campaigns, which have taken the form of protest marches, against the amnesty programme and the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku, who oversees the programme, in order to score cheap political points,” the statement reads.

Head of Media and Communication, Daniel Alabrah, said the amnesty programme will not serve the interests of any political party and has been religiously executing its mandate of training and reintegrating beneficiaries regardless of their political leaning.

He called on those trying to drag the programme unnecessarily into politics to desist, while imploring security agencies, particularly in the Niger Delta, to be alert to their constitutional responsibility of ensuring safety and security of life and property.