Niger Delta is a region characterized with fierce violent conflict for more than a decade now.The conflict is between successive Nigerian Governments and their collaborating oil companies, and militant groups from the region. And the core issues in the conflict are the socio-economic deprivations and denial of resource control which were occasioned by corporate malfeasance and indifference of successive Nigerian Governments to the plight, demands and aspirations of the people of the region. The Nigerian Government however proposed an amnesty policy in June 2009 as a non-violent measure to...