Agency Denies Owing 5,000 Itsekiri Graduates’ Fees

Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has denied owing the schoolhouse fees of 5,000 students of Itsekiri extraction astatine Novena University, Ogume, Delta State.

In a connection released yesterday, the bureau insisted that it does not beryllium students’ fees successful Novena oregon immoderate instauration wrong oregon extracurricular the country.

It reacted to claims by the alleged Office of the Sole Representative of His Royal Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri, to NNPLC, that the Amnesty Programme is “indebted” to Novena University concerning “all Itsekiri students” who graduated from the instauration purportedly nether the programme’s assistance scheme.

The monarch’s agent, Collins Oritsetimeyin Oedema, made the assertion successful a connection issued by Olu’s palace announcing an involution to settee the “outstanding tuition and clearance fees” of each the affected Itsekiri graduates successful the university.

But PAP said Novena University and the Amnesty Office did not grounds the grant of scholarships to the institution’s 5,000 Itsekiri students.

PAP said the study of an enquiry into the contented by erstwhile heads of the bureau revealed that the 5,000 Itsekiri indigenes were sent to the absorption of Novena University by the Itsekiri National Youth Council (INYC) successful 2017 without the engagement of the agency.

It added that it was not conceivable for the PAP to instrumentality work for the students who were not deployed by the agency.