By Adeleye Kunle
The Ijaw Integrity Movement (IIM) has challenged the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu, to either mention the names of non-Niger Deltans he claimed bought amnesty scholarship with over N700,000 or keep quiet.
The group in a statement sent to Track News, by its Convener Brakumo Thomas recalled that Ndiomu in his recent visit to some stakeholders in the region alleged that PAP’s scholarships were sold to people who were not from the region.
Thomas said it was unbecoming of someone occupying such a responsible office to be making serious allegations without providing any proof.
He said all stakeholders should compel Ndiomu to provide proof by releasing a list containing the names of scholarship beneficiaries of PAP and their states of origin.
Thomas wondered, who among his predecessors Ndiomu, was trying to cast aspersion on and called on the interim administrator to provide evidence to justify his claims.
He said Ndiomu should not resort to outright falsehood in his desperate attempt to justify the hatchet job of closing the amnesty programme his paymasters had deployed him to do for them.
Thomas said his group had obtained the list of scholarship beneficiaries under the immediate past Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) and threatened to publish the document containing about 1000 names in national dailies to prove that Ndiomu was simply playing to the gallery
