Two prominent leaders in the Niger Delta region have appealed to the Presidency to give the needed financial support to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).
Former Bayelsa state governor, Senator Seriake Dickson, and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Chief Timi Alaibe, made the appeal in Abuja on Friday during a meeting with the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu.
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They said the funding was to enable the new PAP leader to execute PAP’s programmes such as scholarship, skill acquisition and prompt payment of stipends to beneficiaries.
The two prominent citizens called on the stakeholders, beneficiaries and youth groups across the Niger Delta to give the requisite support to the leadership of Ndiomu at the PAP in the interest of the region.
“We declare support for the continuation of the PAP, call on the beneficiaries and stakeholders for support and understanding for the Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Programme, Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu, (retd).”
“We call on the Federal Government to give him and the Presidential Amnesty Programme all the necessary support, especially financial, to enable him to continue with all the lofty programs that the Amnesty program is running, particularly scholarship, skills acquisition and development and payment of stipends as at when due,” Senator Dickson said.
