We Are Not Owing Anybody- Presidential Amnesty Office

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The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.- Gen. P.T. Boroh has refuted allegations making round the social media and some news headlines that his office is owing arrears in payment to beneficiaries of the amnesty programme.
Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.- Gen. P.T. Boroh
In a press release signed by the Chief of Staff, Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta/Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Colonel Dedis Abel (Rtd), the Amnesty Office stated that these allegations are merely the handiwork of sponsored groups and individuals who are hellbent on tarnishing the reputation of the new Special Adviser and Coordinator of the programme.
“These allegations stem from claims of alleged non-payment of arrears in the Amnesty Office which Colonel Dedis Abel (Rtd) noted is being perpetrated in a bid to tarnish the reputation of the new Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta (SAPND) and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.”
The agency stated that it has paid every beneficiaries up to the month of June 2015.
He explained further that based on the Federal Government’s directive on the CBN Treasury Single Account, the Amnesty Office is no longer directly involved or responsible for remittances as all payments are now being made from the CBN Treasury Single Account (TSA) to eliminate fraud.
The Chief of Staff thereby calls on members of the Public to debunk all reports not obtained directly from the Amnesty Office Call Centre, where all information relating to the Amnesty Programme is being made available first hand to interested parties by the Amnesty Office Media Team.
The Amnesty Office reassured members of the Public that payments for July and August 2015 are being processed and would be released once funds are allocated.
Meanwhile, prominent indigenes of the nine states of the Committee to waste millions of dollars deposited with foreign institutions of learning for the training of ex-militants from the region due to multiple breach of contracts.

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