The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd.), has said no fewer than 3,000 former Niger Delta agitators are on scholarship in tertiary institutions in the country and abroad.
The Special Adviser on Media to the PAP Administrator, Freston Akpor, disclosed this in a statement on Monday while dispelling allegations that the scheme had yet to deploy delegates under the scholarship programme.
“Despite episodes of misinformation in the media, we have sanitised the programme.
Meanwhile, the amnesty programme said it had introduced a counselling and mentoring schem for ex-agitators aimed at stopping street protests and other forms of unrest. Dumale disclosed this during a resilience-building workshop organised by PAP with all members of the strategic committee as well as other ex-agitators in attendance in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
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