By FESTUS AHON

UGHELLI — NATIONAL Chairman of Presidential Amnesty, Phase III, Mr. Wise Onobruchere, has appealed to the Federal Government to include more persons in the programme, insisting that many of their followers were yet to be included in the amnesty programme.

Onobruchere, also National Chairman of Youth Reconciliation and Empowerment Organisation, said: “These persons have been verified and cleared by the documentation agents, Inter Agency Task Force, IATF, as genuine and qualified ex-militants in the Niger Delta region.

“They have renounced militancy in all its ramifications unconditionally and in accordance with the conditions of the amnesty programme.”

According to him, the third phase of the programme was the only phase that followed due process and yet, its members were being denied benefitting from same.