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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has disowned 15 lists of over 1,200 beneficiaries purportedly empowered with starter packs and items in the ongoing suits at two Federal High Courts in Abuja.
The suits were filed over request for payment of N3.8 billion to 15 companies over alleged unexecuted contracts with links to the vandalised N60 billion Presidential Amnesty Programme Training Complex, in Boro-Town, Kaiama, Bayelsa State.
The Amnesty office said the list, which was tendered in evidence by the 15 companies, which contained names of alleged beneficiaries from states of the Niger Delta region, were fake and cannot be authenticated.
The PAP’s office, in a letter replying the request from a law firm, Messrs. Folorunsho Aweda and Associates, under the Freedom of Information Act 2011, with reference number FAA/AMN/ABJ/MISC/29/8/22, and dated August 29, 2022, argued that after going through the lists of names of beneficiaries, as tendered by the 15 companies in connection with the distribution of empowerment items, “the acknowledge stamp shown on the lists of beneficiaries forwarded by your law firm for authentication differs from the standard stamp used by PAP to receive documents from vendors.”
The letter disowning the lists submitted by the 15 companies, signed by the Principal Officer on behalf of the Interim Administration, CO MPI Captain (Nigerian Navy), and dated 8th of September, 2022, also declared that “additionally, it was further observed that the character “OSAPND” that appeared on the stamped lists of beneficiaries forwarded by your law firm does not match the character on PAP stamp used by the registry Unit during the same period (2019).
“There is no written evidence acknowledging the documents on all lists of beneficiaries submitted by your firm.
“Please note that a written acknowledgement is a standard documentation process in PAP, and in the light of the above findings, PAP, hereby, states that the list of beneficiaries forwarded by Messrs. Folurunsho Aweda and Associates did not originate from the PAP as claimed.
“Hence, PAP cannot take responsibility for the lists,” the letter stated.
