PAP Commends Tinubu on Support for Vocational Training
From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has commended President Bola Tinubu for its support for the vocational training of the amnesty office.
PAP administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, stated this in a pre-departure remarks for four cadet pilot trainees deployed for type-rating training at the SIM Aerotraining Ltd in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the implementation of the vocational objectives of the programme.
Otuaro, represented by Lambert Daunemighan, PAP’s Head of the Vocational Training Unit, Otuaro thanked President Bola Tinubu for his strong support of the programme to achieve human capital development, peace, and security in the region.
“The enlisting of these four cadet pilots for training also highlights our passion and commitment to the implementation of the mandate of the PAP in the area of human capital development for our teeming youths in the Niger Delta.
“The Office has received the unwavering support of President Bola Tinubu, who has demonstrated the desire to ensure the peace, security and development of the Niger Delta. This event is a product of Mr President’s commitment to peace and development in the Niger Delta. We will continue to thank Mr. President for his favourable disposition toward achieving the noble objectives for establishing the Programme, ” he said.
Otuaro disclosed that it is in pursuit of the PAP objectives to ensure that delegates and beneficiaries acquire the requisite skills for gainful employment in the aviation sector.
According to him, the cadet pilot trainees programme is in continuation of PAP’s deployment of its delegates and beneficiaries to aviation training institutions locally and worldwide to enable them to become useful to themselves and society.
Otuaro noted that vocational training was a key component of the programme in the planned development of the Niger Delta manpower base.
A statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media to the PAP Administrator, Mr. Igoniko Oduma, quoted Otuaro to have noted that the deployment was in continuation of the significant feat achieved by the Presidential Amnesty Office in the aviation training of its delegates and beneficiaries.
In September and November 2023, the PAP Office sent 40 trainees (20 each month) for aircraft maintenance engineering at Leadstream Aviation Training, Lagos, who finished their programme and are currently undergoing on-the-job training.
The PAP Office had also in November 2023 deployed two batches of six cadet pilot trainees each to SIM Aerotraining Ltd and ALT Academy, also in Johannesburg.
In January this year, the PAP Office also sent eight cadet pilot trainees for type-rating training at SIM Aerotraining Ltd on ERJ-145 and another six to ALT Academy on a Boeing 737 airplane, while two trainees were also sent for helicopter instrument-rating and type-rating training, respectively, at Henley Airfreight Training Ltd, also in Johannesburg.
