The Second Phase Amnesty Ex- Agitators Forum has warned against terminating the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP.)
The group said scrapping the programme as some “faceless characters and desperate political jobbers” are agitating would be detrimental to the Niger Delta people.
The group said it had found out that those calling for scrapping of the programme are not from the region.
According to Salvation Ibena Rufus, the National Spokesman of the Forum in a statement in Yenagoa, it was not possible for Niger Delta native or beneficiaries of PAP to request for its liquidation or the disengagement of the interim administrator, Major Gen. Barry Ndiomu, retd., who had done so much for the beneficiaries since he came on board.
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It noted that while people as asking for Ndiomu’s sack, Niger Delta stakeholders have urged President Bola Tinubu to confirm him as the Substantive Coordinator of the PAP.
“We are in harmony with genuine stakeholders from the region on the call for President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to confirm Maj. General Barry Tariye Ndiomu, reted, as the substantive boss of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, and we are urging these faceless characters and desperate political jobbers to leave the Presidential Amnesty helmsman alone to concentrate on his onerous task of taking the Presidential Amnesty Scheme to greater heights,” the Forum’s spokesman said.
“We have it on good authority that the authors and sponsors of the calls for scrapping of the PAP are not from the Niger Delta region. Our intelligence gathering suggest that the motive behind the blistering media warchest is to compel the new government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to terminate and liquidate the Presidential Amnesty Scheme.
“No true son or daughter of Niger Delta and a beneficiary of the PAP would seek or call for the sack of Major Gen. Barry Tariye Ndiomu, retd,. Under his watch as an Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, a breath of fresh air has been injected into the scheme, true beneficiaries of PAP have not had it so good in recent times.
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“It is laughable, preposterous and ludicrous that these faceless characters claimed that the sum of N2.5 billion in the coffers of the Presidential Amnesty Corporative Loan Scheme has vanished into thin air. There is no iota of truth in this unfounded allegation.
“What these uninformed and faceless characters failed to understand is that, the alleged N2.5 billion was a seed money to kickstart the laudable initiative and so far more than 1000 delegates have benefited from the soft loan depending on what you intend to do with the money.
“The wisdom behind the Presidential Amnesty Scheme (Beneficiaries) Cooperative Society Limited, PAPCOSOL, is to ensure that delegates and beneficiaries of the PAP initiative do not rely on N65, 000 monthly stipend paid to ex-agitatators till eternity. And an Advisory Board headed by an illustrious son of the region a Rtd. Supreme Court Justice, HRM F. F Tabai and other prominent sons and daughters of the region with impeccable records and standing are duly informed of every financial dealings as regards the corporative loan scheme.”