By Archibong Jeremiah Barely two weeks after grantung amnesty to the Bakassi Strike Force, the Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has granted amnesty another set of armed group. The Governor who granted amnesty to the Boki oil palm estate militia groups that has been at loghead for close to a year now.
By Our Reporter About two thousand members of the Bakassi Strike Force led by Benjamin Ene on Monday surrendered a cache of dreadful looking arms and ammunition to weapons to Operation Delta Safe bringing to an end five years of militancy at the Bakassi Peninsula and surrounding creeks. The event which took place at the
By Jonathan Ugbal; Government House Correspondent The Cross River State Governor, Sen. Ben Ayade has granted amnesty to the Bakassi Strike Force (Agitators), led by their leader G1. The group led by their leader G1 came out in their numbers as well as surrendered many several categories of assault rifle. The surrendering of BSF is
By Sunday Efa The Acting Chairman of Cross River State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Okpanke Ogar, has decried the low compliance attitude of Cross Riverians to the Federal Government Tax Payers’ Amnesty Program. Mr. Okpanke made his position known during his Keynote address at the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) Stakeholders meeting in
By Jonathan Ugbal Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has called on the Federal Government to grant amnesty to militants residing in the state. Governor Ayade made this call earlier this week during the commissioning of the Eastern Regional Command Centre of the Nigerian Security Element Project 2 (NICEP), codenamed ‘Falcon Eye’ at the Eastern
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Members of the Bakassi Strike Force BSF, a militant group in Cross River state have indicated their unreserved willingness to lay down their arms and embrace amnesty. Leader of the group, Benjamin Ene, also known as ‘Humble Lion or G1’ has contacted the Cross River State command of the Department of State
By Archibong Jeremiah Some Ex-militants trained under the federal government’s post amnesty scheme Wednesday in Calabar protested the non-presentation of certificates to them following their completion of a 6 months course at the University of Calabar’s (UNICAL) Institute of Oceanography. The visibly angry ex-militants expressed their disappointment at the failure of the institution’s management to
By Jonathan Ugbal The Bakassi Freedom Fighters, BFF one of the militant groups which embraced the federal government’s amnesty program in the Niger Delta today protested to the Governors office in Calabar over unpaid remunerations. The “ex-militants” as they called themselves numbering about twenty could be seen at the main gate leading to the office