*Alleges Employment Of Over 80 Persons From Kogi

Workers in the Presidential Amnesty Office have raised alarm over the deployment of indigenes of the Niger Delta from the Presidential Amnesty Office by the Interim Administrator, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu (Retd).

Some of the workers who spoke confidentially linked the current move to the alleged leakage of information on the activities of the leadership of the office. It was alleged that indigenes of the Niger Delta in strategic positions were deployed to the ministries and replaced.

Ndiomu was said to have attributed the leakage of information to the Niger Delta indigenes working in the office. According to sources, Ndiomu had authorized periodic seizure and search of the telephone of all members of staff of the office.

They stated further that while the Niger Delta indigenes were sent back to ministries, over 80 persons have been employed in the Amnesty Office recently, most of them from Kogi State.

The Head of Administration, Mrs. Khairat Balogun was said to have come from Kogi State.

The new Head of Administration deployed from the office of the Head of Service has been left without an office while the Human Resources component was allegedly removed from the Admin Department and put under Mrs. Balogun’s supervision.

The affected Amnesty staff were removed with the claim by Ndiomu that his mission was to shut down the programme.

When Ndiomu was appointed, he said he was at the PAP with a mandate to wind down the programme but the situation and tension in the region made it impossible for him to abruptly bring the programme to an end.

He was also accused of stopping fresh deployment of students for the scholarship programme as well as putting an end to the training or empowerment programmes of delegates in the region.