The Ijaw National Leader, Pa Edwin Clark, Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd), Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and many other prominent stakeholders from the region have encouraged President Bola Tinubu to give more attention to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to sustain peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The stakeholders including the Ijaw National Congress (INC), ex-agitators, leaders and representatives of ethnic nationalities made the resolution after critically reviewing PAP, its benefits and challenges, during a meeting at the Abuja residence of Chief Clark and promised to improve the gains of PAP to entrench peace in Niger Delta.
In a communique signed by Clark and its National Chairman, Emmanuel Essien, PANDEF reminded President Tinubu that the Niger Delta Ministry was created by former President, Umaru Yar’ Adua to among others, focus on the infrastructural development of the oil-producing states of the country. Critical stakeholders have vowed to improve the gains of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to entrench peace in the Niger Delta.
While commending the PAP interim administrator on the new initiatives to deepen socio-economic impact through the establishment of the PAP Cooperative Scheme, they enjoined all beneficiaries to “wholly embrace it.”
The leaders also called on youths of the Niger Delta to continue to embrace peace and work with the government to ensure effective implementation of PAP and other related efforts aimed at addressing the socio-economic and developmental challenges of the region.
The stakeholders further expressed appreciation to Pa Clark and other leaders for their continued show of leadership and timely intervention in the matter and other issues affecting the Niger Delta. Some aggrieved ex-agitators, who attended the meeting openly apologized to Ndiomu for the series of media attacks against him and the PAP.
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