Niger Delta Ex Militant Group Distance self from CBN Shutdown Over Arrears

Ex Niger Delta militant group under the auspices of the Second Phase Presidential Amnesty Programme has distance themselves from the alleged threat to shut down the Central Bank of Nigeria’s branches in the Niger Delta.The Chairman of the Second Phase in Bayelsa State, Ebina Salvation, in a statement, discountenanced his group from a statement purportedly written by the factional leader of the programme, Stephen Ebisintei.Ebisintei’s group was said to have threatened that they would shut down all the CBN branches in the region over the failure to pay the arrears of their stipends.Salvation restated that the Amnesty Office, under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), was doing well, therefore they should not be blamed for the delay in the payment of their stipends.”Salvation, a director of the Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Authority, maintained that the CBN was not an Amnesty Phase 2 office but a bank accountable and rendering services to all Nigerians, both nationally and internationally.He, therefore, called on the security agents to be at alert.