The verification was allegedly conducted for beneficiaries that partook in the demobilization exercise at Obubra, Cross River State, but had yet to be deployed for either vocational training or formal education.
The beneficiaries were reportedly asked by the organisers of the exercise to surrender the certificates received at Obubra and their identity cards.
But the Amnesty Office in a statement signed by its Head, Media and Publicity, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, disowned the exercise, saying the "so-called verification exercise was conducted without the knowledge of the Amnesty Office and the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta/Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme."
He said the office did not authorize the conduct of any verification exercise of beneficiaries or delegates on its behalf.
He said: "We therefore dissociate ourselves and the office from the conduct of that exercise.
"Preliminary investigation revealed that the illegal verification was conducted by a perennially disgruntled leader of the former agitators in Bayelsa State, whose motive we are yet to ascertain."
He said the Amnesty Office had assured all beneficiaries, particularly persons that had yet to be deployed for training that everything was being done to give them full benefits of the programme.
"There is no reason to be unnecessarily apprehensive as everything was being done to fulfil the mandate of the programme. No genuine beneficiary will be left out at the end of the scheme," he said.
SOURCE,,,, WORLD STAGE
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