{"id":109574,"date":"2023-12-07T06:44:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109574"},"modified":"2023-12-07T06:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:44:56","slug":"ndiomu-pays-tinubus-chief-of-staff-gbaja-%e2%82%a61bn-monthly-ex-militants-allege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ndiomu-pays-tinubus-chief-of-staff-gbaja-%e2%82%a61bn-monthly-ex-militants-allege\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndiomu pays Tinubu\u2019s Chief of Staff Gbaja \u20a61bn monthly, ex- militants allege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1784568215194706320\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Bayo Davids<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nFormer militants in the Niger Delta region have accused the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd) of paying Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila the sum of N1bn monthly of the N5.4bn monthly budget to remain in office.<\/p>\n<p>This is as leaders of the region urged the President to relieve Ndiomu of his job with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the stakeholders and former militant leaders, PAP\u00a0 receives \u20a65.4 billion monthly from the federal government with about \u20a62bn spent to pay \u20a665,000 as monthly stipends to 30,000 ex-militants that have continued to honour their part of the agreement with the federal government to ensure the smooth exploration and production of oil and gas from the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining \u20a63.4 billion are spent on paying beneficiaries tuition fees and upkeep, recurrent expenditures, and payment to contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking under the aegis of the\u00a0 Ex-Militants Forum (REF), in a statement by its National Coordinator,\u00a0 Tony Ebikalaide, the group said that, \u201cNdiomu now feels embolden as he boast to have compromised President Tinubu\u2019s Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila with a monthly payment of \u20a61bn to retain him in office, which is \u20a612 billion a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stakeholders and former militant leaders expressed displeasure at the fact that \u201cpersons that didn\u2019t work for the President during his campaign, in-fact they used their own resources to sponsor and work for the opposition party against Tinubu; they are the people presently benefiting in President Tinubu\u2019s government, all because they were in power during the last government and were able to stash enough public funds to bribe people in President Tinubu\u2019s government to retain them in office. This is the current and sad reality, with all the old persons\u00a0 being retained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group called on the\u00a0 President and the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to urgently rejig PAP and remove the interim Ndiomu for the effective and proper delivery of its security mandate to the region and nation at large.<\/p>\n<p>Ex- General Tony Ebikalaide stated that, \u201cNdiomu has completely bastardized the Presidential Amnesty Programme. He is the worst Amnesty Administrator in the history of the PAP with no achievement, only paid sycophants can continue to defend Ndiomu\u2019s continued stay in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu\u2019s Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila should not allow his name to be dragged into the mud with the likes of Ndiomu.\u00a0 The Amnesty office can make or break people\u2019s political career. Femi Gbajabiamila has a bright future ahead of him and dining with Ndiomu who is the most hated politician in the entire Niger Delta region will not go well with his future political career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPhone<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bayo Davids Former militants in the Niger Delta region have accused the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd) of paying Chief of Staff&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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