Nigeria Says 10,000 Rebels Could Get Amnesty -- Yahoo News/AFPABUJA (AFP) – Up to10,000 militants in the troubled Niger Delta could benefit from an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government aimed at ending attacks which have crippled the country's oil industry, a top official overseeing the amnesty said Friday.
"We are working in the region of about 10,000 militants," the chief coordinator of the amnesty implementation committee, Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ararile, told a press conference.
He said the militants were in between 50 and 60 camps in Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Ondo and Akwa Ibom states.
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