Okogie opposes pay for militants, YCE to meet Yar’Adua – The Guardian
July 20, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
The Federal Government’s introduction of monetary incentives in it amnesty package has been condemned by the Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie.
Okogie said it was wrong of the government to have reneged on its earlier plan not to offer cash to militants in the amnesty package.
He said the decision to pay each of the 10,000 militants a monthly allowance of N20,000 and daily feeding allowance of N1,500 as announced by the Chief Co-ordinator of Amnesty Implementation Committee, Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ararile, was not well thought out because it could fuel the crisis as the armed men would certainly ask for more.
And worried by the protracted Niger Delta crisis, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) also known as Igbimo Agba Yoruba, has resolved to meet with President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on ways to promptly end the problem.
