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PAP: Gen Ndiomu receives IYC president

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… As IYC calls for increased funding of Presidential Amnesty Programme
President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Sir Jonathan Lokpobiri, has advocated for an upward review of the allocation accruable to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) from the Federal Government’s purse.

Lokpobiri who made this patriotic call on Monday in Abuja while on a courtesy visit to the PAP Interim Administrator, Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), called for a strict intervention support from the Federal Government to enable the PAP meet up with current realities and expectations.

“With the fast decrease in value of the Naira, a N65billion annual funding is a far cry. N65billion of now cannot do what N65billion of before would have done,” he said adding that, “It is our appeal to the Government of President Bola Tinubu that there needs to be a review”.

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While noting that the Programme has been “tremendously successful” in terms of impacting lives of young Niger Deltans, he expressed the commitment and readiness of the IYC as the umbrella body of young people in the region to partner and work “strategically” with Ndiomu to further reposition the PAP.

In his remarks, the Interim Administrator commended the IYC President for his acknowledgement of paucity of funds in the PAP. “When people make comments without getting their facts right, it becomes displeasing,” he said of Lokpobiri’s acknowledgement of the current realities of the value of naira to dollar.

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Ndiomu further charged the IYC leadership to take up the responsibility of preaching the many success stories of the PAP to young people in the region, advise them to drop the culture of laziness and indolence, and begin to think of “bigger” ways to sustainably improve their lives.

Clearing the air on the Amnesty’s Scholarship programmes, Ndiomu reiterated the scheme is ongoing, and that his administration has cleared all academic bills of its beneficiaries, both for local and foreign students.

Ndiomu called on the Ijaw nation to “check its excesses”, and explore ways of working with other ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta region to drive “peace, unity and harmony”.

While decrying the “disturbing” level of poverty in Ijaw land, the Interim Administrator expressed worry that young people in Niger Delta are not taking full advantage of the enormous opportunities in the region. Among these, he listed the vast natural habitat for rice farming, and the untapped potentials of oil palm production.

He also renewed his call for the possibility of the Presidential Amnesty Programme transiting into a Social Intervention Programme, insisting that the sustainable peace being enjoyed in the region is “90 percent” traceable to the various innovative programmes of the PAP that are deliberately aimed at improving the lives of young people.

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