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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAMME IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA: A REVIEW

Authors:
Imoukhuede Benedict Kayode and Ogunro Victor Kayode

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Imoukhuede Benedict Kayode1 and Ogunro Victor Kayode2
1. Department Of Public Administration rufus Giwa Polyechnic Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria
2. Department Of Business Administration And Management Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, Ondo State

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Kayode, Imoukhuede Benedict, and Ogunro Victor Kayode. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAMME IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA: A REVIEW." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 7, July 2023, pp. 1785-1799, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.008. Accessed July 2023.
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Kayode, I., & Kayode, O. (2023, July). THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAMME IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA: A REVIEW. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(7), 1785-1799. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.008
Chicago
Kayode, Imoukhuede Benedict, and Ogunro Victor Kayode. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAMME IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA: A REVIEW." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 7 (July 2023), 1785-1799. Accessed July, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.008.

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ABSTRACT:
The activities of oil exploration by the multinational oil-company for over five decades in the Niger Delta has led to underdevelopment, environmental degradation and thus given rise to military, oil pollution, deepening poverty and sundry other challenges in the region. Militancy in the Niger delta has been having damaging effect on the economy of Nigeria and it has taken its tolls on the accrual from crude oil. In a bid to address this perennial problem, the federal government instituted presidential amnesty programme with its core elements of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration to solve, if not all, the fall out of militancy in the region. The data for the study were content analysis and were derived from the available relevant secondary data. This study adopted Marxist political economy approach as its framework of analysis; it is an approach with a holistic view point on the contradictory nature of relationship that underlie social formation, the social law of distribution and production in the society. This study evaluated the presidential amnesty programme with a view to determine the extent of its implementation in the Niger Delta. It concluded that the presidential amnesty programme implemented in the Niger Delta just like other previous governments interventionist programmes, has not adequately fulfilled its stated objectives due to inherent flaws in the implementation process. The study made recommendations for the creation of more employment opportunities for the millions of jobless youths, feasible poverty reduction scheme and adoption of human security framework that is people centred in the Niger Delta.

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