Erstwhile Niger Delta militants have debunked rumours that they were used to perpetrate violence during Saturday’s re-run gubernatorial polls in Bayelsa State.
The ex-militants described the allegations as unfounded and the figment of the imagination of the purveyors.
This was revealed when the ex-militants under the federal government amnesty programme phase II converged on Ughelli, Delta State on Tuesday, in their hundreds, to protest an alleged attempt to sell their slots for educational training.
According to one of the leaders of the ex-militants, Clinton Ebiama, there was an attempt by some staff in the Office of the Special Assistant to the President of Niger Delta Affairs, Gen, Paul Boroh (rtd), to sell their slots for educational training to influential Nigerians for N500,000 per head.
He alleged that the same practice of selling educational training slots of ex-militants to non-participants was perpetrated under Kingsley Kuku, who headed the office under immediate-past President Goodluck Jonathan.
He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the matter before his administration’s good intentions were truncated by these individuals.