So in 2009, the government decided to curtail the chaos and huge financial losses by signing an amnesty agreement and pledging to provide monthly cash payments to the militants in exchange for cooperation. "While this has yet to come to full fruition, these concerns seem quite well-founded as the Buhari administration is currently poised for a head-on collision with some of the most notorious ex-leaders of ... MEND and the security situation in the oil region has taken a turn for the worse ," writes After the Lagos High Court issued an arrest warrant for the ex-leader of MEND and the country's former "most wanted man," Government Tompolo, the Nigerian military reported a string of attacks in the Niger Delta by "heavily armed assailants."