Post-Amnesty Reintegration and Peacebuilding Challenges in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region: The Way Forward
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2014
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This short note gives a brief explanation of the implementation of the reintegration phase in the
Niger Delta region. It points out distinctively, the major challenges impeding the success of the
peacebuilding process and these are related to the crisis of inclusion and exclusion of ex-militants
and leaders of militant groups; diversion of amnesty funds to private use; the emergence of
gatecrashers, connected to patron-client political networks seeking to benefit from the ample
resources and opportunities offered by the programme. These challenges have engendered
resurgence. The note suggests re-organisation of the programme, a proper reconciliation that
would include community participation and reintegration that must be linked to security and
human development of oil-based communities among other suggestions.