The Presidential Amnesty Programme has announced plans to drop three thousand, two hundred and thirty-two beneficiaries from the programme.
Those billed to leave the programme have been trained as entrepreneurs and have received business and setup starter packs.
Also affected are all the beneficiaries of the Oil and Gas International Foundation programme, as well as four hundred of those whom the office had secured employment for.The spokesman of the Amnesty programme, OWEI LAKEMFA, said the Federal Government would save about two point five two billion naira from stipend payments that usually accrue to the beneficiaries.The statement also disclosed that the Special Adviser to President MUHAMMADU BUHARI on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General PAUL BOROH had set up a task force to work out and implement the exit strategy .
