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Hazy Agenda, Multiple Interests: Stakeholders Engagement with the First Phase of the Niger Delta Amnesty Deal in Nigeria

The oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria is bedeviled by revolutionary violence. The grouse of the militant youths in the region is that their communities are degraded by oil prospecting activities of and also that they get too little from the federation allocations from the oil wealth controlled by the federal government. Unable to defeat the militants militarily, the federal government in 2009 adopted an amnesty programme that offered the fighters life sustaining opportunities for dropping their guns. The policy was implemented in two phases: 1) the militants drop their guns and without an…

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