Amnesty Boss Hails Tinubu As 161 Postgraduate Beneficiaries Depart For UK

Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his unwavering enactment for the agency’s education-focused initiatives, peculiarly the caller departure of 161 Niger Delta beneficiaries for postgraduate studies successful the United Kingdom.

Otuaro, who disclosed this successful a statement  by  his peculiar adjunct connected Media, Mr. Igoniko Oduma, described the deployment arsenic a important measurement toward closing the quality capableness improvement spread successful the Niger Delta region.

He said the palmy mobilisation of the beneficiaries for the 2025/2026 world twelvemonth would not person been imaginable without the idiosyncratic committedness and magnanimity of President Tinubu, whose Renewed Hope Agenda, helium noted, continues to show genuine interest for the socio-economic upliftment of the Niger Delta people.

Otuaro said, „I americium eternally grateful to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for graciously supporting the Presidential Amnesty Programme. But for the President’s magnanimity, it would not person been imaginable for america to nonstop 161 beneficiaries to universities successful the UK. The fig is immense and it aligns with his Renewed Hope Agenda and reflects his undying emotion for the Niger Delta.“

He besides acknowledged the important relation played by the nationalist information adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, whose guidance and oversight, helium said, provided strategical absorption and ensured the occurrence of the deployment process.

The PAP brag urged the beneficiaries to instrumentality afloat vantage of the opportunity, describing their assistance arsenic some a privilege and a responsibility. He called connected them to implicit their studies successfully and instrumentality to lend to the improvement of the portion and the state astatine large.

This is not conscionable an world pursuit. It is simply a nation-building mission. You are going arsenic ambassadors of peace, development, and renewed hope,“ helium added.

The PAP brag noted that the large-scale deployment aligns with the administration’s broader nonsubjective of investing successful radical and gathering a peaceful, economically vibrant Niger Delta.

According to him, sustained concern successful quality superior done ceremonial acquisition and vocational grooming remains the astir effectual mode to code long-standing grievances and socio-economic disparities successful the region.

In a governmental turn, Otuaro besides called connected Niger Deltans to enactment President Tinubu’s re-election bid successful 2027, citing what helium described arsenic the President’s “clear and applicable objection of goodwill” towards the region. He said the clip had travel for the radical of the Niger Delta to reciprocate by lasting with a person who has shown accordant committedness to their advancement.

„ Penultimate week, the Amnesty Office held pre-departure briefings successful Abuja for 2 batches of the scholars, preparing them for world and taste integration into their respective big institutions successful the UK,” helium added.

Otuaro reaffirmed PAP’s committedness to expanding entree to prime acquisition and skills improvement arsenic pillars of semipermanent bid and reintegration. He maintained that if the existent standard of assistance deployment is sustained, the Niger Delta’s long-standing developmental challenges could beryllium gradually and permanently resolved.

He added that successful caller years, the Presidential Amnesty Programme, created to reintegrate ex-agitators and beforehand bid successful the oil-producing region, has pivoted towards acquisition and vocational empowerment arsenic tools for stableness and inclusive growth.