FG: Amnesty Programme Has Brought Peace, Stability to N’Delta via thisdaylive
Ndubuisi Francis in AbujaThe Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme , Prof. Charles Dokubo, at the weekend stated that the programme has provided an impetus to efforts to sustain and consolidate peace in the hitherto restive Niger Delta region.
“The Amnesty Programme has been at the forefront of the peace consolidation and peace enforcement. It has brought peace and stability to the Niger Delta. We have been able to interact with those in that environment and have bought them into our dreams. “When we train people, we give them jobs and they earn salaries. When they earn salaries, they can take care of their families, not with stipends.
Towards this end, Dokubo said he created a unit specifically mandated to explore avenues of job opportunities and placement for beneficiaries of the of the Amnesty Programme who have completed training on skill acquisition or educational progragramme.
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