All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
MINISTER of Defence and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Amnesty, Major -General Godwin Abbe (rtd.), shed light, yesterday, on why the committee is not keen on meeting with the Aaron Team, a group of eminent Nigerians with mandate from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta ((MEND) to dialogue with the Federal Niger-Delta crisis to an end.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The minister made the pledge in his office yesterday when a delegation of ex-soldiers that were recruited by the then Biafrian army paid him a courtesy visit. The minister thanked the ex-soldiers for the way they have handled their agitations so far, and promised that since their demands were not being made as a right, he will in conjunction with the defence minister, Maj. Gen. Godwin Abbe...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... the government.Chairman, Presidential Committee on Amnesty and Minister of Defence, Major-General Godwin Abbe (rtd) who spoke yesterday in Abuja at a meeting with leaders of ex-militants, assured that the region will witness aggressive physical development if the current peace is sustained.Ex-militant leaders, who attended the meeting include, Ateke Tom, Government Ekpemupolo (alias...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... with the Presidential Committee on Amnesty (PCA) led by its chairman and Defence Minister, Gen. Godwin Abbe.Others at the meeting which held at Chelsea Hotel in Abuja included Minister of Niger Delta, Ufot Ekaette, Magnus Kpakol of the National Poverty Eradication Programme(NAPEP), and all members of the committee.Speaking on behalf of the militants moments before journalists who...
