Ex-militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, on Monday shocked Nigerians, especially those from the Northern part of the country when he insisted that the N74billion voted for the rehabilitation of Niger Delta ex-militants in the 2012 budget was not enough.
“With all these gains, one expects that the operators of the amnesty project should have been encouraged and applauded. Instead, what we see is rebuke, recrimination and an attempt to scuttle the project by those who contribute next to nothing in the upkeep and maintenance of the Nigerian state but are now calling for a probe into the amnesty project.
“There is nothing wrong with probing a government institution if it is not done out of malice. It is important to state that going by the 2012 budget passed by the National Assembly, the amnesty project budget is about N74bn annually. Which means that amnesty project budget for a year is far less than two days oil production," he argued.
To further drive home of point, Asari Dokubo demanded that a 10-day oil production proceeds should be allocated to the amnesty programme, since the country’s oil production had risen to 2.6 million barrels per day as against 680,000 before the amnesty programme was instituted.
This revenue allocation formula thing is about to plunge this country into another round of North/South political battle. Hope those in the helms of affairs will nip this crisis in the bud in the interest of Nigeria
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