The Niger Delta Youth Movement has dissociated itself from threats issued by one Ebitare Pere, calling for the reinstatement of Brig.-Gen. Paul Tarelah Boroh (rtd) as Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty programme.
President Muhammadu Buhari had last week sacked Boroh as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants.
The development irked the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers and 10 other militant groups, who threatened to attack oil installations in the Niger Delta in four weeks.
Reacting, however, the Nigeria Delta youth group said Pere was neither a spokesman of the body at any level nor even a member.
A statement by National President of the body, Joe Jackson, said, “We wish to state that the so-called Pere is not known in the NDYM. He/she is not the national spokesperson of our movement; neither is he/she the spokesperson in any of our nine state chapters.
“Flowing from the above, we heartily embrace the appointment of Professor Charles Dokubo as the new Special Adviser and Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme.
“We, therefore, advise that he should be pan Niger Delta in the discharge of his duties and learn from the mistakes of his predecessors so that the nine state governments, leaders and, indeed, Niger Delta Youth Movement will support his stay in office.”
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