Four days after President Umaru Yar'Adua directed the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament for Militants in the Niger-Delta to meet with the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, Henry Okah, the chairperson of the panel, Godwin Abbe, on Wednesday acknowledged that it was yet to carry out the order.
Mr. Abbe, who made this known in a statement he signed, did not give any reason for the panel's delay in meeting with Mr. Okah.
In the statement, the committee's head said, "I already have the mandate of the President for the amnesty panel to reach-out to Henry Okah and offer him the amnesty.
We are on course with regard to the implementation of this directive".
Reacting to reports that members of the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta were preventing panic-stricken residents of Gbaramatu kingdom from returning home, Mr. Abbe said the Force was only preventing criminals from returning to the villages for the security of the community.
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