From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has trained about 500 in various vocations and crafts, including agriculture, logistics management, wielding and fabrication, oil and gas, oil spill clean up and remediation among others.
Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Barry Ndiomu, said this while re-affirming the Federal Government’s commitment to continuously expose Niger Delta former agitators under the programme to various forms of training to enable them develop capacity for greater productivity and self-reliance.
According to a statement by Special Assistant on Media to the interim administrator, Thomas Peretu, the PAP boss, who cited manpower development as essential to the amnesty programme’s successful implementation, states that PAP would keep looking into opportunities for collaboration and partnership with relevant public and private institutions to meet the beneficiaries’ training needs in line with the programme’s goals.
The training was designed to give the graduates the knowledge and skills they need to take full control of their lives after the amnesty programme.