Justify FG’s investment in your education, presidential amnesty boss tells students

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged students under the programme’s foreign scholarship scheme to justify the federal government’s investment in them by taking their studies seriously.

He gave the advice during his meeting with the PAP scholarship students currently studying in the United Kingdom on Sunday.

Otuaro, in a statement by his media aide, Igoniko Oduma, on Monday, said much was expected from the students in their academic performance to justify the government’s investment in their education.

He asked them to sustain the story of academic excellence by their counterparts back home in the foreign country.

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He said his administration was putting measures in place to make the scholarship scheme more robust to bridge the human capacity gap in the Niger Delta.

Otuaro further said he would continually prioritise the scholarship and welfare of students studying in Nigerian and foreign universities under the ongoing reintegration phase of the programme.

He asked the students to be good ambassadors of PAP, their respective communities, the Niger Delta and the federal government by shunning negative acts that would bring a bad reputation to the country as a whole.