By Onozure Dania

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has adjourned till March 15, for the hearing in an application by 18 aggrieved ex-militant youths seeking the inclusion of the Chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee, Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh, in a suit against their non-inclusion in the ongoing amnesty programme for Niger Delta region.

The aggrieved ex-militants, Asenekir Oyile, Angiama-Owei Oyindoubra, John Government, John Sawyer, Trydy Okpeke, Dollar Motor, Selebi Ayowei, Bobra Angese, Henry Gomeromo and Ekerebi Ombe, in the substantive suit, are contending that the Amnesty Committee erred by refusing to include them in the ongoing amnesty programme after series of resolutions from meetings with past National Security Advisers to the President, Late General Owei Azazi and Col. Sambo Dasuki, respectively.

The ex-militants in the suit, are contending that they were former militants that had accepted Amnesty under the Third Phase and surrendered their weapons to the Federal Government through the Amnesty Office in 2011 under the Peace Initiative of the Federal Government.

Although hearing in the suit was, yesterday, stalled by the absence of the trial judge, Justice H. Nganjiwa, the court adjourned till March 15, for the hearing in the application for substitution of the name of the former Chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee,  Kingsley Kuku with the present Chairman, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (retd).

The decision on the next adjourned date was agreed on by parties in the matter.

The ex-militants are in the suit, seeking an order of court, compelling the Amnesty Committee to approve reasonable slots for them as agreed at one of the peace meetings on  December 19, 2011.